Let those who, of these late years, would erect for us such a contemplative and immaterial an exercise of religion, not wonder if there be some who think it had vanished and melted through their fingers had it not more upheld itself among us as a mark, title, and instrument of division and faction, than by itself.
Iragan urteetan erlijiozko ariketa bat hain beharia eta materiagabekoa eraiki nahi digutenak ez daitezen harri, horrek gure artean zatiketa eta alderdiaren ezaugarririk, izenbururik eta tresnarik ez balu, beren behatzen artetik itzuria eta urtua izanen zatekeela uste duen norbait aurkitzen bada.