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What ! why , he objected against religion itself ; he said it was a pitiful , low , sneaking business for a man to mind religion ; he said that a tender conscience was an unmanly thing ; and that for a man to watch over his words and ways , so as to tie up himself from that hectoring liberty that the brave spirits of the times accustom themselves unto , would make him the ridicule of the times . He objected also , that but few of the mighty , rich , or wise , were ever of my opinion -LSB- 1 Cor . 1:26 ; 3:18 ; Phil . 3:7,8 -RSB- ; nor any of them neither -LSB- John 7:48 -RSB- , before they were persuaded to be fools , and to be of a voluntary fondness , to venture the loss of all , for nobody knows what . He , moreover , objected the base and low estate and condition of those that were chiefly the pilgrims of the times in which they lived : also their ignorance and want of understanding in all natural science . Yea , he did hold me to it at that rate also , about a great many more things than here I relate ; as , that it was a shame to sit whining and mourning under a sermon , and a shame to come sighing and groaning home : that it was a shame to ask my neighbour forgiveness for petty faults , or to make restitution where I have taken from any .