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Sanction Religious

One might fill a book with the testimonies given by Divines at a time
when free from those apprehensions of the consequence of it which might put a† † put under a bias
bias upon their sincerity of the inefficacy weakness necessity of strengthening that sanction, the influence of
which it is their province to superintend, – with sanctions borrowed
from other sources.

See Systems Social II p.102. Look at The examples of Louis XI, Philip II, and
Moaley Muley Ishmael , all three prodigies of devotion and monsters of
depravity. At the same time, And whatever may have been the case with
the Moorish Emperor, the French and Spanish Tyrants belonged were devoted to a religion
which, whatever duties it may prescribe besides, professes to prescribes all those. and that
under the same sanction as does that which is most fashionable with us. which are demanded by the established religion of our country.

Theirs, like ours, was a compound of moral duties useful to be observed; of
moral duties, useless: of ceremonies to be performed: and of things dogma moral to be
believed. In theirs, indeed, the useless duties, the ceremonies, and the
points of faith bore a much larger proportion to the useful duties than in
ours: – accordingly it is not for ours, nor I trust in God it may be confidently hoped, ever will be, to
produce examples of depravity so enormous.

Every instruction which contributes to strengthen the attachment to the
three last of these classes of observances, contributes to weaken the attachment
to the first of them. They are three branches in a lever on the same side
of the fulcrum – of which that is of untending against one or the other side: the elevation of any of the
three is the depression of that one. (p.275.)

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Box	015	Main Headings	deontology
Folio number	204	Info in main headings field
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