Franklin said, “I respected them all, but with different degrees of respect, for I found them more or less mixed with the others” (412). An example of mixed religions would be Puritanism and Separatists. They both believed in the same God, but both thought they were better than the other and the reasons varied. Franklin was a true believer in the Godhead. According to the Merriam Webster Dictionary, Deity means God or Goddess. He believed that God existed and created the world. The book tells us the following: “I have never been devoid of certain religious principles; I never doubted, for example, the existence of the Divinity, the fact that he created the world and governed it by his Providence.;”