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First Lines. Penal Law
(5.)

To the word punishment, lawyercraft, in confederacy
with religious fraud — religious and hypocrisy — in confederacy with, and in
subserviency to, monarchical tyranny, has, of late years, applied furnished
a synoneym — viz visitation — penal visitation —

In the language of the Encglish translation of the Bible,
visitation is enpemployed as synonymous to punishment Synonymous?
But in what case? — where the misdoer being a man, the
ruler is the invisible almighty. Considered in this point of view, sin
is the name employed for the designation of the misdeed.

By the word visitation, substituted by Lawyer's Rhetorick,
to the word punishment, the following are the notions insinuated,
the intimations conveyed.

Of the Almighty invisible, whose throne is in heaven,
the Monarch is the visible representative here on earth: the representative,
according to the certificate given to him by Blackstone,
invested with no small part — with as large a part as is necessary
for the accomplishment of the indisputable object of his
government — the greatest happiness of him in comparison of
whom all others are but as creatures to their creator — invested,
in a word, with a compleatly sufficient adequate part of his divine
constituent's attributes. By the alledged offender, a misdeed has
been committed. By this misdeed, the Monarch has been offended.
The Monarch, being God upon earth — God with us — the offence
is a sin. Sins deserve to be visited. This sir For this his sin,
this Sinner deserves to be visited. At the charge of him by
whom Sin has been committed, punishment is due. Proportioned
to the dignity of the offended ruler, should be the magnitude of the
punishment

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Date_1	1821-04-17	Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	037	Main Headings	constitutional code
Folio number	029	Info in main headings field	first lines
Image	001	Titles
Category	copy/fair copy sheet	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c5
Penner	john flowerdew colls	Watermarks
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	richard doane	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	11244
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