Every thing is what it is, and not another thing.

Pain and sorrow and misery have a right to our assistance: compassion puts us in mind of the debt, and that we owe it to ourselves as well as to the distressed.

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.

In all common ordinary cases, we see intuitively at first view what is out duty, what is the honest part. This is the ground of the observation, that the first thought is often the best. In these cases, doubt and deliberation is itself dishonesty; as it was in Balaam upon the second message.

Every thing is what it is, and not another thing.

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.

For as we have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office: so we, being many, are one body in Christ, and every one members one of another.