This despite the fact that China has perhaps the most rigorous and severe legal punishments for corruption in the world.

The first of these laws threatens immorality with future misery; the second, with legal punishments; the third, with the disapproval of our fellow-men.

Here, then, we have a primary and potent cause of the slight efficacy of legal punishments, in the picturing of the many chances of escape.

Because these shield and fence the heart from all gospel doctrine, and from all legal punishments, nothing can come at it till these are removed.