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INTRODUCTION 3 Sanctions — Their comparative efficacy — Religious.

The Bishop of Gloucester, supposing him to have
made out his proposition, that the rulers
in every nation have propagated the doctrine
of a future state of rewards & punishments not the existence of Punishments & Rewards but their application
has gone but half way towards the proving
such a doctrine to be necessary to the [subsistence being
(however it may be with respect to
it's subservience] to the well-being)"Well-being" is his expression. v. 1. p. 57. of Society.
He should have shewn, at least he should be
ready to shew in case of it's being disputed
that in all these notions, the application distribution that
was supposed to be made of those future rewards
and punishments, was of the rewards
to actions beneficial, & of the punishments
to actions prejudicial to it.

Otherwise the examples If in the instance of any one nation, the case
was in any degree the reverse, I mean, if the force of the spiritual sanction was understood to be directed more in any degree to ye promotion of actions [or abstinences] derogatory from to the happiness of Society, more it proves that
so far from the two human temporal sanctions being
insufficient without the aid of the spiritual
to the maintenance of courts, without the assistance
of the spiritual one, that they are sufficient

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against their it's opposition. than that of such as are conducive to it

It is the misfortune of this argument of the
necessity of the practise this persuasion from the universality
of it, that if that the universality The recent example of comes on very vexatiously If 10,000, then 10,000,000.[be compleat
it is no great matter] have no exception
it is not much, & if it admitt but of a
single exception, one it is nothing. The only cause of here is to take hearts of grace, and boldly the of the well-being of such a society

If there be any religion nation in which there the
is a state doctrine of rewards and punishments
is inculcated but those rewards and punishments affected
exclusively appropriated to actions indifferent to the happiness of Society,
it is as to all but the unhappiness it produces by the unncessary useless restraints as if there were no such doctrine

If there be any nation, in which the doctrine of rewards and punishments is inculcated, but the application of them of this earth that of 4 classes distinguishable classes; the 1st confused performances & abstinances conducive to the good of Society The 2d. of performances & abstinances derogatory to the good of Society. The 3d of mere believing, & a 4th of mere ceremonials.

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