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The religious sanction is grounded and can only be grounded in the Moral attributes of God & those Moral Attributes cannot oppose Happiness.

Justice is of use no father than as it is of service to the handmaid of Benevolence.

Justice is one of those means for compassing the ends that Benevolence proposes.

If God is just it is because he is benevolent.

If there is no benevolent Being that looks to us, we must look to ourselves: we
must procure our own happiness by ourselves, as far as we can — It is all we have What other resource is left to us?

If there is a being that watches over us, but is not benevolent, he is not just:
there is no guessing what will please him; there is no guessing what will not please
him:— there is no knowing how to please him: all that we have left for it our only wisdom is to please
ourselves.

If there is a benevolent Being that watches over us — that rewards and punishes in the exercise of that benevolence
he will at least not cannot be displeased at our procuring our happiness to the utmost of ourselves for the disposition to contribute to it, is what we mean by benevolence, when we mean any thing. And in the very perfection of our love/reverence with our
conviction of his benevolence.



Identifier: | JB/015/213/001
"JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 15.

Date_1

Marginal Summary Numbering

Box

015

Main Headings

deontology

Folio number

213

Info in main headings field

Image

001

Titles

moral attributes cannot oppose happiness

Category

linking material

Number of Pages

1

Recto/Verso

recto

Page Numbering

f68

Penner

sir john bowring

Watermarks

j rump 1831

Marginals

Paper Producer

ann elizabeth lind; franz ludwig tribolet

Corrections

Paper Produced in Year

1831

Notes public

ID Number

5429

Box Contents

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