Francis Atterbury — English Politician born on March 06, 1663, died on February 22, 1732

Francis Atterbury was an English man of letters, politician and bishop. A High Church Tory and Jacobite, he gained patronage under Queen Anne, but was mistrusted by the Hanoverian Whig ministries, and banished for communicating with the Old Pretender. He was a noted wit and a gifted preacher... (wikipedia)

Affliction is a school of virtue; it corrects levity, and interrupts the confidence of sinning.
The greater absurdities are, the more strongly they evince the falsity of that supposition from whence they flow.
They who are not induced to believe and live as they ought by those discoveries which God hath made in Scriptures would stand out against any evidence whatever, even that of a messenger sent express from the other world.