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Obligation of Laws

fall by its conformity [our notions of] to the moral attributes
of him from whom it is alleged to come:
Of these one [indispensably] one, is Benevolence:

The evidence of benevolence of the Deity, the only
evidence we can be it is in our notion to be possest of, is that which
results from the manifestations of his Will
visible discernible in that state of things of which we are witnesses
[concerning] the present life Were it possible for him to forbid any
measures conducive to their happiness, that
is to ordain under a penalty that it should
not be taken pursued, He would not be benevolent.
For this is what we mean by benevolent, the
desire of the greatest happiness of the object with respect
to which a person is said to be benevolent,
or we mean nothing. Either
Revelation therefore contains no prohibition
of this sort, or it be supported. in the judgment of those decisions
and as well as of every also judicious reasoner
it would is not to be supported. Which of these two is
the case, I leave any one to judge.

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering	not numbered
Box	028	Main Headings	comment on the commentaries
Folio number	024	Info in main headings field	obligation of laws
Image	004	Titles
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
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Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif] propatria [britannia motif]]]
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