He tells us that our souls are naturally mortal.

Annihilation is the fate of the greater part of mankind, of heathens, of Mahometans, of unchristened babes.

The gift of immortality is conveyed in the sacrament of baptism: but to the efficacy of the sacrament it is absolutely necessary that the water be poured and the words pronounced by a priest who has been ordained by a bishop.

In the natural course of things, therefore, all Presbyterians, Independents, Baptists, and Quakers would, like the inferior animals, cease to exist.

But Dodwell was far too good a churchman to let off dissenters so easily.