--- .140 '.A.-·:Siiint 'Qr A Brut-e; -Part Iro . ·and Ajfe[Hons; andfet <\Certain Death, and PojJible Torment continu1lly before his cy~s, toTorment him,withom ;my Remedy! · And befides the Hoped Life hereafter, there .is none. ~er. I 2. ·Dopu think._that t~e Bi.lief of another life, is med– ful or ufe(td, to the -well governing of thu world, {)r not ? If you , fay no , I. Why then do Infidels and Brutijs fay, that Religion – Mbut t'he device of men for the Governing cf the wurtd ~ and tbat Wi[hout it fubje8s would not be Ruled? You confefs by thi~ your . frivilous objeCtion, that the world cannot be Ruled well without the 'Belief of a life t<J come. · :z. A!Jd it is mofi: manifeJ1 from the very naturiof man , an,d . from the common experience of ·the world. I. If man be well- - . governed, it mufi be either by Laws crmtaintng Reward.r.andpen.,zt– ties, or without. Not withoat. For~ 1. All the world doth find it · by experience , that it cannot he ; an~ therefore every Common-· wealth on earth is Governed by Law-s, eitherWritten, Cuf/omarJ or Verbal. · 2 • .If. the Love of Vertue for itfelf fhotJld prevail with one of a thoufand , that would be nothing to the Government of the · world. , 3· Nor could any man be effectually·induced to love Vertue. for it felf, according to the doctrine of the Brutijs : For ·rer~ tue it /tlf is made ·no V§rtue by them, but a defor.mitj of the mind, while they O"(erthrow the Eml, and Objefl, and Law that it is meafured and.informed by (as -I ·fhall more fully open to you anon). It is therefore mofl: certain that- no Nation is or can · beGoverned as befeemcth 11/t$1.1 11 without Propofod punifomm!s and . RtwAras. And if fo, then thefe mt.lfl be .either teWJperttl punifh.ments and . benefits, or fuch as are to ae had in·the Life to ,ome. That Tem– poral punifhments andbenefits cannot be Motives fufficient for any tolerabl, · ( muth lefs p~rfefl or fufficient) Government, is a moH: . evident .Truth : For J . . de f.t.Cl:o we fee by experience, that no people live lik! men that be not Governed by the Belief of ano– ther life• . TheNations that Helieve it 'nor, areSav..-tges almofi all; living naked and befiially, ~nd knowin'g n0thing o~ vertue ~r vice, but as they feel the commodiry or difcommodtty ·to .thetr · flefh : .Theyeat the flefh .of men, for thempR part, an~ l~ve as · brutifhly ,as they believe.. .And if you fay that in China tt ~s not fo, ~ anf~.er, 9~e p~~t ~f th~£!! ~h~r.e belie.y~ .th( Jm~ortaht~~! _
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