For seeing all formed Religion, is founded at first, upon the faith which a multitude hath in some one person, whom they believe not only to be a wise man, and to labour to procure their happiness, but also to be a holy man, to whom God himselfe vouchsafeth to declare his will supernaturally; It followeth necessarily, when they that have the Goverment of Religion, shall come to have either the wisedome of those men, their sincerity, or their love suspected; or that they shall be unable to shew any probable token of divine Revelation; that the Religion which they desire to uphold, must be suspected likewise; and (without the feare of the Civill Sword) contradicted and rejected.
Ikusirik eratua dagoen erlijio oro hasieran jendetzak pertsona batengan jarritako sinesmenaren gainean oinarritzen dela, hura jakintsu eta jendearen zorionaren alde lan egiten duen pertsonatzat ezezik, Jainkoak supernaturalki bere nahia agertu gura izan dion gizon santutzat ere hartuz, hemendik nahitaez ondorioztatzen da ezen, erlijioaren aginpidea dutenek beraien mailako gizakumeengandik espero izaten den jakinduria, egiazkotasun edo maitasunik ez daukatela susmatzen denean, edo jainko-errebelazioaren frogagarririk erakutsi ezin dutenean, beraiek sostengatzen duten erlijioa ere susmopean jarri behar dela eta (ezpata zibilaren beldurrik gabe) aurkatua eta arbuiatua izan behar duela.