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Click Here To Edit Imprisonment examined. Subserviency to Reformation.
the principles of human action enable him to distinguish
between the credible, have no such effect upon the
minds of the uninstructed multitude to whom the whole
scene of nature's operations and the whole structure system of
human conduct of the human is a perpetual mystery.
Darkness too is a circumstance that tends, operates with peculiar
energy force to dispose men to conceive imagine and in a
manner to feel the presence of invisible beings. The
Whatever be the reason the fact is notorious and undisputed.
When the sensory is idle lies fallow the imagination
goes to work and produces a numerous race of ideal
beings. These , being usually with the human
race subject to the power of the great Creator of all
beings, are all supposed to be occupied in exercising the of
that wrath the resentment he is supposed to entertain against
all those [various] obnoxious modes of conduct which men have concurred
in branding with the name of wickedness.
If in order to take advantage of these this favourable dispositions
of things a minister of Religion is employ'd to
visit the delinquent and pour the balm of spiritual
consolation instruction into his wounded conscience he acts with
an advantage which he can never (hope for / experience enjoy possess
when address in the ordinary exercise of his function) when employd in performance <add>discharge of the ordinary
over men plunged immersed in the tumultuous engagements of
the busy world. Whatever might be the case at first
with his professional discourses, instructions his company the <add>his mere presence, if of considered
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