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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.

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