If Men could but Separate the Profit, and the Pleasure of their Sins,
from the Sin it self, and keep the Former, when they Renounce the Other,
what a Number of Penitents should we have in This Wicked World! But the
Doctrine of Satisfaction and Restitution lies so Cursedly hard upon the
Gizzards of our Publicans, that the Bloud in their Veins is not Half so
Dear to ’em as the Treasure they have in their Coffers. The Man and the
Money are in This Case as good as Incorporated, and Fining is little
less then Flaying him: But Justice however finds him Out; And This, in
Few Words, is the Sum of the Moral. Avarice is as hard to Part with any
thing, as it was Eager to Get it. When a Man is once in Possession of an
Ill Gotten Estate _De Facto_, he never Troubles his Head with the _De
Jure_ of the Question; but looks upon the Propriety of what he has Gotten
by Rapine, to be Transferr’d to him by Providence: The money in short had
Chang’d the Master, and he’d rather part with an Eye out of his Head,
then with a Penny out of his Coffers.