Many religious people believe in an afterlife.

Ah! must wee live, and see so sudden dead The Life that late our lives inspirited?

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Grinding and thighing are not fornication, and since they are not fornication they do not have the same punishment, and no one is entitled to set punishments according to his opinion[…]