wherein he was very well advised, wisely, in his own reason, foreseeing that the beginning of this distemper would easily run into an execrable atheism, for the vulgar, not having the faculty of judging of things, suffering themselves to be carried away by chance and appearance, after having once been inspired with the boldness to despise and control those opinions which they had before had in extreme reverence, such as those wherein their salvation is concerned, and that some of the articles of their religion are brought into doubt and dispute, they afterwards throw all other parts of their belief into the same uncertainty, they having with them no other authority or foundation than the others they had already discomposed; and shake off all the impressions they had received from the authority of the laws, or the reverence of the ancient customs, as a tyrannical yoke:
Horretan oso uste ona baitzuen, arrazoiaren bidez aurrikusten eritasun haste hori errazki beheratuko zela ateismo hastiagarri batera; zeren jende xeheak, ez ukanik gauzen epaitzeko ahalmenik, zori eta itxuretara eramatera utzirik, ezinagoko begiramendutan ukan dituen gauzen, hala nola bere salbazioari buruzkoen, ikertzeko eta gutiesteko ausartzia eskuetan eman zaionez geroz, eta haren erlijioko arau zenbait duda eta zalantzatan ezarri direnez geroz, antzeko kordoka batera egozten baititu bere sinesmenaren garaitiko zati guztiak, ez baitzuten bere baitan inarrosi zaizkionek baino manu-indar ez funts gehiagorik; eta uztarri tiraniko batetik bezala baztertzen da legeen indarrez edo aitzineko azturaren begirunez hartu zituen hunkimendu orotarik,