But through criminal negligence and stupidity we so abuse these general expressions and draw from them so many false conclusions that although all men have the same idea of God and consider Him an infinitely perfect being, yet there is hardly an imperfection that was not attributed to Him during the age of idolatry, and He is often spoken of in a very unworthy manner all this for failure to closely compare the things we say about Him with the idea representing Him, or rather with Him Himself.