2 Sept 1811

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B.II. Under Revelation

Ch.5. Mischief. Weakning Natural

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Is it believed to be unavailing? The commodity not being to be purchased the pain is not found.

Under the system the case of a death-bed repentance is rather a perplexing one. It is unavailing? The sins of the whole life remain unatoned for, and /everlasting/ eternal misery is the consequence. Is it unavailing? To be put off til the last moment is the natural lot of a task so irksome. Meantime the efficacy of the remedy stands unimpeached. With the Catholic it is beyond doubt /out of question/. With the Anglico Protestant /Protestant will/ it is /at least/ no less so. ‘He pardoneth and absolveth all those /them/ who truly repent and unfeignedly believe his Holy Gospel.’ +

Bentham footnote: ‘ + Liturgy’. Here their repentance being a price by the payment of which a mass of merit is purchased sufficient for the rubbing off the sins of a whole life, be this life ever so long and the sins crowded into the compass of it ever so flagrant and now so numerous /good/ economy prescribes the husbandry of so pretious a matter and forbids the expenditure of any portion of it in waste.

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Deliverance on deathbed repentance. Unavailing? All sins unatoned for, end less torment the cause genuine. Availing? Confiding in this abstinence a man adds sin to sin his whole life long.

Economy forbids expenditure of so pretious a matter in waste. Anglican absolution promises pardon to all believers.