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Excerpt from The Grand Question Debated, or an Essay to Prove That the Soul of Man Is Not, Neither Can It Be, Immortal: The Whole Founded on the Arguments of Locke, Newton, Pope, Burnet, Watts, &C
It is evident, that religious Precepts, or the Fear j'u/lice, will not re/lrain Men from why are our nece?ary and in dfierfible Laws -and I jhould be very jbrry to think Mankind were virtuous for no other Can/e than a View of a future Reward for their Afiions; or to think Men had [0 mean an Opi nion of the wonderful and eternal God, as to imagine he will give them everlajling Happincfs for paying him [uch a fervile, mercenary Ado ration, which they would not pay but out of Fear of Rani/hment, or in Hopes of Recompence.
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