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Advantages and Disadvantages of the Religious Sanction.
"can the heart conceive."
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15 1) Subserviency to Reformation. In this respect it is eminently deficient.
Here finishes finish our enquiry enquiries into the advantages
and disadvantages of the Religious Sanction. The topic
of Subserviency to Reformation does not apply applies not to punishments
issuing from this source. Under the political
sanction a punishment was said to be made of a of what was meant on speaking
of a mode of punishment as being subservient to the
purpose of reformation, we was meant that it was of
such a nature as to beget an aversion to the offence
in one by whom it has actually been experienced.
effect of it when inflicted.
This by the supposition can not never be the case with
regard to future punishments the punishments of a future state in the present life.
which is the only part of our existence with respect
to which we are considering the influence of the
sanction punishment in question.
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16 Analogy and Popularity 7 As to its characteristicalness we know nothing
the topic of Analogy applies not, because that repre property
to that depends upon the particular mode of punishment: a circumstance
concerning which in regard to the punishments
of a future state we are altogether ignorant.
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17 8 Popularity it has no need for.
The
topic of Popularity applies not, partly for the same
reason, and because if the mode were known, [the
authority of the Legislator is such as must would effectually preclude
all dissatisfaction and the part of the people
objections on the ground can have no application
the of a [legislator]
Legislator acknowledged to be infallibility] the acknowledged
infallibility of the Legislator cuts off short all objections
on this score.
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