Excerpt from The Analogy of Religion, Natural and Revealed, to the Constitution and Course of Nature: To Which Are Added, Two Brief Dissertations, I. On Personal Identity; And II. On the Nature of Virtue; Together With a Charge, Delivered to the Clergy of the Diocese of Durham, at the Primary Visitation, in the Year 1751 By this promotion, our worthy bishop was furnished with ample means of exerting the virtue of charity; a virtue which eminently abou'nded in him, and the exercise of which was his highest delight. But this gratification he did not long enjoy. He had been but a Short time seated in his new bishopric, when his health began visibly to decline; and having been complimented, during his indisposition, upon account of his great resignation to the Divine will, he is said to have impressed some regret, that he should be taken from the present world so soon after he had been rendered capable of becoming much more useful in it. In his last illness, he was carried to Bristol, to try the waters of that place; but these proving ineffectual, he removed to Bath, where, being past recovery, he died on the l6th of June, 1752. His corpse was conveyed to Bristol, and interred in the cathedral there, where a monument, with an inscription, is erected to his memory. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.