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MS Ethics. Vol: II.
As to matters of pleasure and pain, The estimate of pain & pleasure then must be made by him who suffers or
enjoys the one or the other. Even the short sighted and unreflecting
multitude are better content satisfied to trust to their own experience and observation
than to take the word of they know not whom.
Accordingly the only way of turning the idea of pain in this way to any
account is to fix it to some known species: and it is by this that those
methodists religious teachers who deal most in specific images and representations lively portraitures of the
pains of hell, owe that superiority of influence which they possess over the
regular divines. Tis from these considerations that a prudent divine, though he The Ecclesiastic, who by study & critical
should be satisfied that there is no assurance int he Scripture of the pains of research should satisfy himself that the language of Scripture
the wicked being of this kind, that the passages speaking of fire as the is metaphorical with regard to the pains peculiar character of the future pains of
instrument of torment are to be looked upon in no other light than as
the wicked would necessarily employs if acting upon his conviction a much less efficient instrument
metaphorical that (all researches) into the quality of those pains are (vain)
of terror than he who introduces the material sufferings created by unquenchable fire
in .... hidden from our eyes: that he could not therefore, consistently & burning brimstone & gnawing worms – and all those objects which
with truth present them as specimens of those that are to most vividly appeal to the senses
come, would avail himself in respect of quantity as a term of comparison.
Even the pleasures with which they such?the more popular religious instructors embellish the mansions of the blessed
are pleasures of love, which though separated in their descriptions from their
sexual earthly basis, fail not under favour of the equivocality of the expression (unity a certain confusion of terms & ideas
of denominations to draw secretly and imperceptibly much of their force
from that quarter the regions of sense. To figure to themselves the transports of heaven, they in order to aid their conceptions
retrace to themselves those with associations of transports they have experienced upon earth:
transports which although they catch them from conjunctions which were take seemingly removed from the regions of
sexual passions, could not
not
not the actual conjunction of sexual intercourse would not for all that have
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