Compassion is a call, a demand of nature, to relieve the unhappy as hunger is a natural call for food

The Epistles in the New Testament have all of them a particular reference to the condition and usages of the Christian world at the time they were written.

Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such sort of creatures as to stand in need of those helps which higher orders of creatures do not.

The only distinct meaning of the word "natural" is stated, fixed, or settled; since what is natural as much requires and presupposes an intelligent agent to render it so, i.e. to effect it continually or at stated times, as what is supernatural or miraculous does to effect it for once.

Thus there is no doubt the eye was intended for us to see with.

Virtue, as such, naturally procures considerable advantages to the virtuous.

It is not at all incredible, that a book which has been so long in the possession of mankind should contain many truths as yet undiscovered.