3i6 Mr. Turner on Crimes and Fmiftments. 



both are the gift of the fame Almighty Being, 

 from whom contradidions cannot arife, 



III. We are now come to the jiature of punifh- 

 ment. Concerning the nature of thofe punifh- 

 ments which will be inflifted by the Deity in 

 confequence of immoral anions, it is impoffible 

 for us to determine, in what they differ from hu> 

 man punidiments, and how far they extend. Only 

 we may conjedure, that, as the moral government 

 of the Deity is of a fpiritual or mental nature, 

 the punifhments alfo will probably be mental,' 

 and may poffibly exift as long as their fubjed,* 

 the mind. Human governments, on the other 

 hand, being entirely of a temporary nature, the 

 puniHiments they provide muft be temporary 

 alfoi iuch as vn-^y cnh^v produce an amendment in 

 the offender him/elf, by laying before him fuch 

 motives as may be fufficient to deter him from a 

 repetition of his crime, or place him in fuch a 

 fituation, as fhall take away from him all oppor- 

 tunity of doing further mifchief. The firft of 

 thcfc claffes comprehends fines, corporal puniJJj^ 

 VientSy irnprifonment for a limited time, and temporary 

 hnifiment -, the fecond clafs includes perpetual im- 

 frijonment, or exile, and death. 



It is obvious that thefe fandions carry vvith 

 tiiem different degrees of feverity: which leads 

 us to enquire into. 



IV. 1 he rule or meajure of punifhment. 

 The general rule of all punifliments is, that 



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