The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural…

§. 5. V. If the world cannot be governed according to its nature, and God's Laws, without the hopes and fears of Good and Evil after death, then the objects of such hopes and fears is certain truth. But the Antecedent is true: Therefore so is the Consequent.

That the nature of man requireth a Moral Government, and not only a Physical motion, is already proved. Physical motion only determineth the agent to act, and produceth ⟨p. 129⟩the act it self quoad eventum. ¹Moral Government doth institute for the subject a debitum agendi, & habendi, and judgeth him accordingly. If there were no Government but Physical motion, there were no debitum in the world, neither officii, praemii vel poenae, vel jus possidendi, vel injuria: no right or wrong. For Physical motion doth equally produce the act in perjury, murder, treason, adultery, as in good deeds: and it never produceth an act which eventually never is: Therefore there should be nothing a Duty but what cometh to pass, if Physical motion were all the Government. Government then there must be; and what God requireth of all by nature I have showed before. Now that there is a moral impossibility of the performance of this in any sincerity, so as to intimate any laudable Government of the world, I shall further prove.

That the nature of man requireth a Moral Government, and not only a Physical motion, is already proved. Physical motion only determineth the agent to act, and produceth ⟨p. 129⟩the act it self quoad eventum. ¹Moral Government doth institute for the subject a debitum agendi, & habendi, and judgeth him accordingly. If there were no Government but Physical motion, there were no debitum in the world, neither officii, praemii vel poenae, vel jus possidendi, vel injuria: no right or wrong. For Physical motion doth equally produce the act in perjury, murder, treason, adultery, as in good deeds: and it never produceth an act which eventually never is: Therefore there should be nothing a Duty but what cometh to pass, if Physical motion were all the Government. Government then there must be; and what God requireth of all by nature I have shewed before. Now that there is a moral impossibility of the performance of this in any sincerity, so as to intimate any laudible Government of the world, I shall further prove.