You have complete power to shut out all thoughts and opinions about this matter. You can also shut out all grief and sorrow from your soul. The things and events themselves have no power to force any opinion on us.
It is in thy power absolutely to exclude all manner of conceit and opinion, as concerning this matter; and by the same means, to exclude all grief and sorrow from thy soul. For as for the things and objects themselves, they of themselves have no such power, whereby to beget and force upon us any opinion at all.