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Considerations of the existence of God and of the immortality of the soul, with…
Considerations of the existence of God and of the immortality of the soul, with the recompenses of the future state for the cure of infidelity, the hectic evil of the times / by William Bates ...Considerations of the existence of God and of the immortality of the soul, with the recompences of the future state for the cure of infidelity, the hectick evil of the times / by William Bates ...
London: printed by J.D. for Brabazon Aylmer, 1676
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
3. 'Tis not possible for humane Justice to distribute recompense exactly according to the moral qualities of actions, therefore we may rationally infer there will be a future Judgment. This appears by considering.
3. 'TIs not possible for humane Justice to distribute recompence exactly according to the moral qualities of actions, therefore we may rationally infer there will be a future Judgment. This appears by consideriug.
1. That many times those crimes ⟨p. 225⟩are equally punished here, that are not of equal guilt: because they proceed from different sources, that lye so low as the strictest inquisition cannot discover. And many specious actions done for corrupt ends, and therefore without moral value, are equally rewarded with those wherein is the deepest tincture of virtue. The accounts of civil Justice are made by the most visible cause, not by the secret and most operative and influential. Therefore a superior Tribunal is necessary, to which not only sensible actions, but their most inward principles are open, that will exactly judge of moral evils according to their aggravations and allays, and of moral good according to the various degrees that are truly rewardable.
1. That many times those crimes ⟨p. 225⟩are equally punisht here, that are not of equal guilt: because they proceed from different sources, that lye so low as the strictest inquisition cannot discover. And many specious actions done for corrupt ends, and therefore without moral value, are equally rewarded with those wherein is the deepest tincture of virtue. The accounts of civil Justice are made by the most visible cause, not by the secret and most operative and influential. Therefore a superior Tribunal is necessary, to which not only sensible actions, but their most inward principles are open, that will exactly judge of moral evils according to their aggravations and allays, and of moral good according to the various degrees that are truly rewardable.