1817 Sept. 13

Not Paul

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Ch. 9 Paul’s Doctrines

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1. their object

4 Admiration

5 Asceticism

If a faith / i.e. to persuasion / to belief // considered as applied to propositions assertive of the existence of facts of an extraordinary nature of a preternatural or supernatural character and description delivered as having been / asserted by the person in question to have been / delivered to him by God, and pronouncing an assurance of the truth of those same propositions.

If to faith / such persuasion / , considered independently of the aptitude and solidity of the grounds on which it rests, any such quality as moral really attaches―and that merit, as hath been supposed, encreasing in proportion to the intensity of the / such / persuasion to / on / which the appellation of faith is applied / bestowed / and if that intensity has for its measure and thence for its proof the magnitude of the / such / sacrifice which in the shape of happiness a / the / man has been seen to make in consequence of it of the sacrifice of which in the shape of happiness of which it has been seen to be productive which has been seen to be the fruit of it no meritorious service / merit / fruit // which was ever displayed rendered by Paul in this shape no meritorious service / fruit the production of which in this shape / which in this shape was ever prescribed or recommended by him can approach to that / those / which have been so copiously displayed / produced / by and under one of those mischievous religions over which the religion of Jesus is in these our days making such rapid and beneficial conquests.

Behold the adorers of the name of Bramah some of them keeping themselves for days together suspended on hooks forced into the back between flesh and bone: others prostrating themselves under the wheels of the moveable temple of chariot of Juggernaut for the benefit of being crushed by it on its passage. JB footnote at this point: ‘ Collect a few other instances from Mill’s India’.