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With whatsoever else it may accord, Whatever else may be thought of it, the
objection accords but indifferently with the idea of
the utility of religion, or the desire of inculcating
into the minds of persons of this or any description
the persuasion of an all seeing Governor and Judge.
This Judge at a time is painted to us as exempt
from a inequity, this Governor from caprice.
True: but is not infinite and everlasting never ending misery
held up also as the possible consequence of transgression,
and but too frequently the actual one? Of the Nay if
two gates is not that which leads to future happiness
the strait straight One?
If out of pure compassion to the delinquent
you will not persist in refusing to subject him to the eye
of an inspecting eye think consider what⊞ ⊞ what upon the most approved pla of all other plans is the alternative,
consider what he will be a gainer by
the change. By night In a winter's sixteen hours of of when
darkness cold, forced idleness and solitude: by day
holes in the wall instead of windows, and from these
holes nothing to be seen: by day, either solitude
again, or aggregation to labour amidst promiscuous crowds.
May not these crowds contain some life afford some looks glances more
galling than that the concealed regards of an inspector, himself under
inspection and controul, some voice more odious than
silence silence?
Thus
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