·14~ 'ASttlNi lt' 4Brute.· ,Part Il, -beltial, as their lufl:s can tempt them to deGre ? What fhould re• .ftrain Armies from Rapes andCruelty, tbat may.do it unpunifued ? Or popular tumults that are fecured by the multitude. - ·· 6. And there would be no reftraint of any villany that could btu befecre-tly committed. And a wicked wit can eafify hide the ,. _("!rea tell: mifchiefs. Poyfoning, fl:abbing, b.urning houfes de. '• ·faming, adultery, and abtmdan.ce the like~ are eafily kept fecrec by a man ofwit, unlefs a fpecial Providence reveal them (as ufual. ly it doth ). · 7. At leafrl the probabilityof {ecrecy would be fo great, and alfo the probability of finful advantage, that mofl: would ven-: n1re. ~ 8. And all thofe fins would be committed without fcrnple: which the Law of man di<l appoint no punifument for : as Lying, and many odi~us vices. · 9· If one man, or tw0, or ten lhould be deterred from poy– foningyou, or burning your houfes, or killing your cattle , &c. by humane Laws , a thoufand r~~ore would be let loofe and venture. I o. All the Gns of theheart would have fuHLibeny, and a de-· :filed foul ha \"C neither cure nor reftraint. For the Laws and judgments of men extend not £O the heart. All the world then might live in the H~ttred of God, and of their neiJ,hbour.r, and in d.a1ly Murde-r, Theft, AQeltery, Blafphemy of the heart. Withi14 they might be as ba-d as Devils, and fear no punilhment ; for man can rake: no cognizance ofit. And it is the bearttbat is the M11n. ,You fee then what perfonsthe Infidels and BrutijJs wmald have us all be ! What hearts and lives mankind fhouki have according to their L11ws ! ·Be Dtvi!J within , and murder , and deceive , and wmmit adulrery as much as you will , fo you h~ve wit to fctpe t:he GallOW$, and you are Schollars fit for fuch bc:fiial ' Mafters." · I I. Yea kt me add this one more mifchief : Hereby they. - would .deflroy all Charity andG~od -work._s, except the very befl:ial LoveofthoJe that pleafe mens }.ufas. For noLaws of men compell men to rhe Love of God or rmzrJ :Nor much to .Good work.! ! Who would do any thing comparative-ly, that believed not a Rew111rd and P1mifo~nent hereafter ? If we give all that we have to the poor , we can here have no Reward, but the _breath of a mans mouth, which at death we und.erfiandnot. Take down .the ever- --- ··-·· lafling
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