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Paederasty
in certain circumstances to occasion us explain still greater
harms. But that is not the grievance: for if it were
the censure which is bestowed on the case of those objectsany such object
would be proportional to the probability that could be
shown in each case of its their producing such greater harms.
But that is not the case: it is not the pain that an-
gers them but the pleasure.
Religion.
paragraph
We need not wonder at any length to which the
rigour of such philosophy may be carried, when forti-
fied reinforced by notions of Religion. Such as we are ourselves,
such and in many respects it is common for
us to make God to be: for fear blackens every object that
it looks upon It is almost as common for men to con-
ceive of God as of or being of than human ma-
levolence in their hearts, as to call him a being of
infinite deleted text benevolence with their lips. This act is one of amongst others deleted textwhich some men and lucki-
ly not we ourselves have a strong propensity to com-
mit. To some persons it produces, at for there is no disputing
it, a pleasure: there need, no more to prove that it is
God's pleasure they should abstain from it. it is
God's pleasure that in the present life we should give up all manner of plea-
sure, that is all manner of happiness, whether it way of another's happiness wheresoever we
think we find it: which is the sure sign and car-
of the pleasure he will take in bestowing on us all
imaginable happiness hereafter; that is in a life of the
existence of which [we have no prospect but
much media on this] he has given us no other proofs than this these.
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