037_029.xml

Title: [1821. April 17. First Lines.]

Description: 1821. April 17.

First Lines.

Penal Law

To the word punishment, lawyercraft, in confederacy with religious fraud - /and/ religious hypocrisy - in confederacy with, and in subserviency to, monarchical tyranny, has, of late years. applied /furnished/ a synone/y/m - viz visitation - penal visitation -

In the language of the English translation of the Bible, visitation is employed as synonymous to punishment Synonymous? But in what case? - where the misdoer being a man, the ruler is the invisible almighty. Considered in this point of view, sin is the name employed or the designation of the misdeed.

By the word visitation, substituted by Lawyer's Rhetorick, to the word punishment, the following ae the notions insinuated, the intimations conveyed.

Of the Almighty invisible, whose throne is in heaven, the Monarch is the visible representative here on earth: the representative, according to the certificate given to him by Blackstone, invested with no small part - with as large a part as is necessary for the accomplishment of the indisputable object of his government - the greatest happiness of him in comparison of whom all others are but as creatures to their creator - invested, in a word, with a compleatly sufficient /adequate/ part of his divine constituent's attributes. By the alledged offender, a misdeed has been committed. By this misdeed, the Monarch has been offended. The Monarch, being God upon earth - God with us - the offence is a sin. Sins deserve to be visited. For this his sin, this sinner deserves to be visited. At the charge of him by whom sin has ben committed, punishment is due. Proportioned to the dignity of the offended ruler, should be the magnitude of the

punishment

JB_806_406.xml

Title: [24 July 1815 Jug. True History]

Description: 24 July 1815

Jug. True History

History of Jesus

Conversations

Repentance

(1)

Conversations on the subject of Repentance

Repentance—Great appears to have been the importance attached by Jesus to this topic: many the discourses in which the performance of this operation is pressed upon his hearers.

Of this inquiry two intimately connected causes seem assignable: 1. the contributing to impregnate their minds with terror, and thereby engage them to fly into his arms and look to his person for protection and support. Repent ye only for the kingdom of heaven, i.e. that kingdom in which it is by me that the office of King is to be filled and exercised.

2. The giving a value to the power assumed by him of forgiving sins.

Of these sins at the hands of a professed reformer of a prophet or a God sent from heaven to reform the world would not a catalogue have naturally been expected? Yes: if such had been his object or of the number of his objects viz. to lay down to mankind in general for the conduct of life such a body of directions as should be adapted to all times and all places and serve alike not only for the age in which he lived and died and for all future ones.

Of the enterprize such as that in which he was engaged, was of such a MS alt. ‘was the nature’. nature that a man could not embark in it without turning his back upon all his former prospects and habits, and in this sense becoming as it were a new man. To engage man in this substitution of new to old, was the object towards these discourses tended in which instance[?] was inferred: The enterprize being of a sort in which success was understood to depend in a more than ordinary degree on the special favour of God, and God being a hater of all sins, sins in every shape being displeasing to God, human sorrow for all past sins and a determination not to engage in new ones, were among the conditions [...?] [...?] [....?] to success. To fulfill this condition, the knowledge of the several shapes in which in this instance at least sin had manifested itself was obviously in some sort necessary: but for this branch of knowledge as for others a man would on this as on other occasions look to act [...?] as in his view [...?] [...?] [....?] with mankind.

[marginal note unplaced as yet] looking to others altogether different.

JB_111_161.xml

Title: [1818 Aug. 29. Things as they are]

Description: 1818 Aug. 29.

Things as they are

§.8. Splendor

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The Monarch is every where the image of the divinity. In England he is God upon earth: he has the attribute /God’s attributes are his/. This is among those things which /have been proved by/ Blackstone has proved to the satisfaction of all Church of Englandists. The God of heaven is the invisible God: the King of England the visible one. All this is orthodoxy: M r Wilberforce knows better than to call upon Lord Liverpool to prosecute as for blasphemy those who would palm upon us for God a self-confessed miserable sinner. Splendor as all Catholics and all Church of Englandists know is of the number of three[?] attributes. Who ever saw at Rome God sitting on his throne, or in England a dove hovering over it, without light enough to consume it if it were a combustible one? The invisible God is encompassed with /seated in/ a full blaze of splendor: the visible one when he is upon his throne has never as yet had more than a few sparks issuing from a few diamonds.

Splendor is therefore among the attributes which belong to the Crown jure divino: it is amongst the appendages and evidences of legitimacy.

Of extortion /oppression/ of waste, of corruption - and now of delusion /deception/ - of fraud on the one part of delusion on the other - of all these enormities they have the phrases splendor of the Crown lustre of the Crown - been proved to be the instruments. Who is there that can deny them? Who among those who have ever either put off or received this trash for sterling who is there can now confess it without shame?