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To be copied If this reason should not satisfy us, our
Author is liberal enough to give us another.
Vol.1. p.56. "Because also," says he, "were the exercise of
"every virtue to be enforced by the proposal of
"particular rewards, it were impossible for
"any state to furnish stock enough for so
"profuse a bounty." — Here our learned
author has followed his friends Brown &
Warburton, who being gaping anxiously
after bribes & stalls & niches chose to confined
all the idea of reward to the narrow aisle
of bounties given or preferment bestowed. But
in following his leaders our Author's unhappy
propensity to blundering has led him astray; &
he made makes that matter of choice in the
legislaton which they more consistently
made a matter of necessity. For certes
if they have no funds to supply particular
rewards they must per force of necessity be confined
to penal sanctions.
Should neither of these conclusive
reasons have worked conviction
on an unbeleiving reader, our author
will at last force him into conviction by
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