31 August 1814 [...?]

Jug. Util.

B.II. Under Revelation

Ch.4. Mischief 4. Forcing Pain.

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Duty or merit make no difference when the effect is produced sole difference the extent of the effect.

 Look out for [...?] is designed exemplification.

Ch.4. Mischief 4th /or 3rd/ Forcing man to embrace pain /compelling/ /[...?] men/ /self-torment/

The notion by which in the shape in which it is productive of positive pain self-torment is constituted matter of merit or of duty does not in any part of the geographical field of Christianity /Christian dominion/ appear to be much in fashion. Under Protestantism it has never been. Under Catholicism it has ceased to be.

To submitt to physical pain rather than be accessory /contributory/ to the production of psychological evil—moral or religious, and thence for the sake of avoiding and preventing so much of and in that shape, yes: but not simply and for its own sake. Not for the /clearer/ hope of recommending ones self to the favour of an infinitely benevolent as well as omnipotent being, and thus at the expense and endurable degree of pain producing in a chance of an exemption from unendurable ones.

Pains of martyrdom, yes. In the voluntary acceptance and thus for self-infliction of pain on those occasions there was whether fulfillment duty or no there was more than fulfillment of duty than was merit. But on those occasions pain was courted /embraced/ not for its own sake, but /in the character of/ as a means leading towards an ulterior end: the saving a man from the obligation of abjuring /the doctrine of Jesus/ Christianity or the hope /endeavour/ to give extent to it: the saving a man's self from acts of disobedience towards God, or the [...?] of other men within the pale of his obedience.

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Mischief 3. Forcing man to embrace pain. The notion that self-torment is matter of duty or merit seems pretty much out of date, under Protestantism always, under Catholicism now.

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To submitt to physical evil rather than be accessory to merit or religion; yes in this there may be merit: but not in taking it upon man's self for its own sake not thereby to please a being of infinite benevolence.

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Pains of martyrdom yes. But martyrdom is a means to an end viz either saving one self from abjuring what is thought religious truth, or causing others to embrace it.