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NOTE.

In France and probably in other Catholic countries, an
abuse of the whole holy scriptures has occasioned
it to be still more preposterously applied. It
is has been applied to the crime of those who [committ are guilty
of filthy practises] by a euphemism are
termed in that language non-conformists.
⊞ ⊞ The pretence seems to have been that persons infected by this abomination were punished thus upon an extraordinary a particular occasion by an extra-ordinary providence. The case is This is one of those crimes in the punishment of
which men have made a merit of casting off
all humanity and all reflection. A very small
share of the latter reflection is however sufficient to show how
little there is in that piece of history to warrant
a human legislator in applying such a punishment
to such cases crime.

In the first place it seems to be agreed by
divines of almost all persuasions, that the [unfathomable
dispensation of superior wisdom] miraculous
and occasional dispensations of an extraordinary providence
are afford no rules fit measure to govern the ordinary and permanent
institutions of human legislators. Otherwise It they were, simple
fornication† † The offence of, murmuring against authority, and
mocking old age# # The The offence for which two and forty children were torn -voured to pieces by Bears, at the intercession of Elijah – 2 Kings ch. 2. [not to mention many other] should ought to be made
be capital offences.

2. With respect to the offence in question if it had
been God's pleasure that it should be punished
throughout

|| The offence of Korah, Dathan and Abiram and their partizans: for which 15,000 of the people suffer'd death. Nuneb. c.16

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	159	Main Headings	punishment
Folio number	126	Info in main headings field	analogy
Image	001	Titles	note / inundation
Category	text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	f1 / f2 / f3 / f4
Penner	jeremy bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::l v g propatria [britannia motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer	caroline vernon
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	53949
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