1 Sept 1811

Jug. Util.

B.II. Under Revelation

Ch.1. Mischief 1. Terrors

§.2. Causes of Suicide Unlawfulness

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To pour the [...?] of worms into his wound.

That in the present life misery to how extreme a pitch soever screwed may shut out of all prospect of relief/ feel itself divested of all hope the votaries of Christianity /pretended followers of Jesus/ have [...?] the unlawfulness of suicide.

[...?] in man's nature are two circumstances of felicity to the value of which he seems scarce as yet to /be/ have been sufficiently aware /sensible/.

Two circumstances of felicity, the one of which is enjoyed by him in common with the inferior animals, but of which the other is all his own.

Of his best enjoyments, were the day on which (spite of all his reluctance) they are doomed to cease to have their end foreknown to them, the sweetness might be over-powered /turned to bitterness by this /so/ [...?] /a/ fount of the tree of knowledge. /Almost to the last/ This fatal day is accordingly almost to the last concealed from his eyes.

Of this treasure it is not /has not been/ in the power of the Christian Minister /[...?]/ altogether to bereave him. The worst they can do is to hold up perpetually to his view the approaching and certain and near approaching loss of it, and this is among their most constant /strenuous/ labours.