A Wise Man, in all Controversies, will try what may be done by Fair
Means, before he comes to Foul: and where the One fails, the Other will
Certainly do the Work. The Fear of Hell does a great deal towards the
Keeping of us in our Way to Heaven; and if it were not for the Penalty,
the Laws neither of God, nor of Man, would be obey’d, there would have
been a Charm in Wood as well as in Stones, if the Little Thief had but
been soundly Drubb’d with a Good Honest Cudgel: for where Conscience and
Argument will do no Good, Punishment must: But as it is the Surest, so
the Good Man here made it the Last Remedy.