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7) Punishment defined and distinguished.

We may it is true
talk of producing
restraint as of producing
pain. But
the import of the
word restraint is not
less figurative in that phrase, than
in the other. Restraint
is still an imaginary a something
burthen which a
man may be laid
under.

NOTE

I do not mean the pecuniary worth value of it merely a
man may receive the worth of his service in the expectation
of obtaining the good will of those any whose
service may be by possibility be of use to him, in the satisfaction
of having observed strengthening himself in such habits as give him
a title to such good will, in relieving any object
person from such a pain as produces in himself a pain of
sympathy. This explanation being given of the
worth of a man's service, the position I think will
be allow'd.

Crimes tho not evils are I am ready enough to
allow productive of evils: but that is not the point
in controversy.

Warburton
upon my will: otherwise
I might worship
him asleep in my sleep as easily
as awake. I mean
Believing that God
ought to worship God
in such or such a
manner does may not indeed
depend altogether
upon my will:
but actually serving worship
him in such a manner
nor is what certainly
depends altogether.
He admitts which
I see not what occasion
he had to do, that
the sin evil in question
do or in other words
the acts productive of
it do not are not such as issue from
the will.

His Lordships purpose was to reconcile men to the an
act of government by which persons of a certain
description (Dissenters) were subjected to an inconvenience
(Incapacity for certain offices) This act
had been complained of under the name of an act of
Punishment. To prove the complaint groundless, he
endeavoured to shew that the act in question were such as did not
merit the properly come under the name of acts of punishment
but under a name less odious that of acts of restraint.
But the inconvenience being the same we, what name these acts
were called by which occasioned makes no difference.
The fact is that in strictness of speech the acts in question
were in some cases necessarily acts of punishment. [Qu?] it being the pain they
produced that operated the effect. Not so only in case of
incapacitation. Only the pain necessary to back the prohibition
of exercising.

The only question upon the ground of the utility is whether
the inconvenience call it restraint, call it punishment
or what you will, is or is not greater than the benefit
of any that results from it. But this question I wash my
hand as being nothing to the foreign to the present purpose.

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