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God, say they, understands how to apportion knows
means to ends, surely as well as man does. If there is a figurative state for
had he spoken, he would have spoken in
such a manner as to be intelligible: had
he written man should not do a thing,
hdand, as a means of their not doing it, commended them not to do it,
he would have explained to them what it
was he willed they should not do: had
he commanded them not to steal, he would
have told them what it was, "to steal":
had he commanded them not to do no
murder, he would have told them what
it is "to murder": it is necessary , in
order to avoid an infinitely greater mischief,
sometimes to kill: he never would
have told them not to kill.

Had he meant to inculcate mutual patience

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of such injuries done by man to man
as the state does not require to have punished
he would never have taught, that he, and
he only ought [voluntarily] to lend his assistance to the
laws, who is free transgressorrecords the punishment of <add>his assistance to thetransgressors, who in no
himselfinstance was everhimself <add>evera transgressor, that is, that no
man, or scarce any man ought [voluntarily]
to lend his assistance to the laws.

He never would have cherished the hopes
of gaining a causeby the decision of any Judge not by exposition demonstration
of right, but by importunity: much less
could he have represented himself as such
a judge. He never would have declared so
in the expectation that of its being understood
that notwithstanding such his declaration it
was otherwise.

He never would have recommended beneficience<add>to benevolence
that is the contribute to their their happiness
by the prospect of their emerging as the consequence
of the it's exertion of such beneficience


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If there is a figurative stile for inculcating moral
duties: there is a literal: wherever there
is a literal figurative; there is a literal.
The discharge of moral duties consists in the
doing in some certain circumstances certain
acts, and abstaining in certain circumstances
from certain acts: those acts have their
name; those circumstances have their description.

He never
</p> OBSTACLES. Divines. Interest that prac their System |OR| Suffer not by a comparison.
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They can never pass upon mankind any longer as possessing
in any tolerable perfection any of the properties which all Laws must
have in order to be of armed, than the
knowledge of those properties shall be hidden
from men's eyes : The example of a collection
of laws actually possessing those properties
will be mortal to their credit: mortal to the
credit of own the whole system, and with it to our
own.

That system + is apparently of use to the community: + carries some appearance at least of being
certainly to ourselves: it must
at any rate be supported.


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Identifier: | JB/005/020/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 5.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

005

Main Headings

church of englandism

Folio number

020

Info in main headings field

[[info_in_main_headings_field::obstacles divines interest […?] their system or suffer not by a comparison]]

Image

001

Titles

Category

text sheet

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

Penner

jeremy bentham

Watermarks

[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] [britannia with shield motif]]]

Marginals

Paper Producer

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

Notes public

ID Number

2437

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