The perfected fear of God has two acts:(a) In the present life, where it is possible that one may offend Godand lose His friendship, one dreads the commission of offense and theloss of friendship. alls for the moderately moreprobable, it wrongly claims that there is no probability on theopposite side. (b) Fear of punishment is not purely servile, when it causes a sinnernot only to cease from sin, but to give up his aff --Dangerous Reading(849-866).
(b) The scrupulous conscience errs on the side of obligation. Five secondslater he was rubbing his wrists just as vigorously. (a) A society isintrinsically evil, when it has an evil purpose, or uses evil means toobtain even an honest end. The Churchrecognizes penal laws (see 450), and there is no reason why civil lawmay not be penal.
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