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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
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3. The necessity of Eternal Recompenses to excite a constant fear in Men of offending God, makes the Justice of them visible. For (as it has been proved before) whiles they are clothed with ⟨p. 252⟩flesh and blood, the disposition inclining from within, and the temptation urging from without, if the punishment of sin were not far more terrible, than the pleasures of it are alluring, there would be no effectual restraint upon the riots of the carnal appetite. Now if civil Justice, for the preservation of society, wisely decrees such penalties for offences as are requisite to maintain the honour of Laws that are founded in equity, either by preventing, or by repairing the the injury done to them; Is it not most righteous that the Supreme Lord of the World should secure obedience to his most holy Laws, by annexing such penalties as are necessary to induce a reverence of them in his Subjects, and to execute the sentence in full severity upon presumptuous Transgressors? ⟨p. 253⟩without this the Divine Government would be dissolved.
3. The necessity of Eternal Recompences to excite a constant fear in Men of offending God, makes the Justice of them visible. For (as it has been proved before) whiles they are cloathed with ⟨p. 252⟩flesh and blood, the disposition inclining from within, and the temptation urging from without, if the punishment of sin were not far more terrible, than the pleasures of it are alluring, there would be no effectual restraint upon the riots of the carnal appetite. Now if civil Justice, for the preservation of society, wisely decrees such penalties for offences as are requisite to maintain the honour of Laws that are founded in equity, either by preventing, or by repairing the the injury done to them; Is it not most righteous that the Supreme Lord of the World should secure obedience to his most holy Laws, by annexing such penalties as are necessary to induce a reverence of them in his Subjects, and to execute the sentence in full severity upon presumptuous Transgressors? ⟨p. 253⟩without this the Divine Government would be dissolved.