Miracles alone cannot vindicate the divinity of immoral doctrine.
He found an ignorant and corrupt society ruled by an immoral yet fanatical monarch.
Finally, it may be noted that many immoral acts, such as the use of false weights, lying, &c., which could not be brought into court, are severely denounced in the Omen Tablets as likely to bring the offender into " the hand of God " as opposed to " the hand of the king."
His father, a man of immoral life, was with difficulty persuaded to cohabit with his wife.
Further, though it is the province of reason to test this revealed system, and though it be granted that, should it contain anything immoral, it must be rejected, yet a careful examination of the particulars will show that there is no incomprehensibility or difficulty in them which has not a counterpart in nature.