Things And Actions Are What They Are,

The Private Interest Of The Individual Would Not Be Sufficiently Provided For By Reasonable And Cool Self-love Alone; Therefore The Appetites And Passions Are Placed Within As A Guard And Further Security, Without Which It Would Not Be Taken Due Care Of.

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.

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.

Things And Actions Are What They Are, And The Consequences Of Them Will Be What They Will Be: Why Then Should We Desire To Be Deceived?