5 Aug 1815

Jug True

9

II Principal

Ch Mount Sermon

(2)

(2)

Only in proportion as they were there in a state of concord and amity with relation to each other, could they be perfectly at his command, ready at all times, in such way as he should from time to time appoint, made serviceable to him in his enterprize.

In the particular situation in which in respect of that enterprize and by means of it both he and they were placed, to the rendering such disposition as above in the highest degree subservient to it, no special restriction of any kind was either necessary or conducive. To himself it was impossible that attachment could be too strenuous or too reserved: towards one another it was impossible amity and concord so long as it was not inconsistent with that attachment, should be too strenuous, too warm and imperturbable, the determination on the part of each individual to make sacrifice of his individual interest to the interest of the whole community of which he was endeavouring to become the founder and the leader—too strenuous and inamiable. The scheme it is true, was in its own nature, a scheme of conquest: a scheme, to the success in which the determination to employ force, and all the infinite mass of evil comprized in the single word war would eventually and almost to a certainty [be] necessary: and therefore as towards opponents and adversaries no such charity could have been comprized in it: charity thus unlimited in the MS alt. ‘its’. extent of its application would have been incomparable with the ultimate and principal virtues Faith and Hope. Note in marginal opposite final sentence in text: ‘the means /mediating/ can’.

But

or 3

Only as they were in concern with each other could they concurr in obedience to himself.

or 4

Towards himself to one another no limitation to these qualities was necessary

or 5

Only as towards enemies: viz. opponents to his scheme of conquest.