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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.
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