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12) Law in general.

Moral Laws of Nature.

it was "prescribed") by some superior being; and in those
"creatures that have neither the power to think, nor
"to will, such laws must be invariably obey'd. so long
"as the creature itself subsists; for its existence depends
"upon that obedience. But Laws in their
"more confine'd sense, and such as in which it is
"our present business to consider them, denote the
"rules, and of action in general, but of human
"action or conduct: is that is, the precepts by which man,
the noblest of all sublunary beings, a creature
"endowed with both reason, and free will, is commanded
"to make use of those faculties in the
"general regulation of his behaviour."

Further consideration
of the Moral
Laws of Nature,
Likewise of the Laws of Nations,
postponed

Thus far again our Author. He tells us of Tis after this he tells us
that what he is now speaking of is what is called
the Law of Nature. And from this passage
commences a smooth-flowing and flowery dissertation
on composed of the most approved choicest and most current phrases
of theological grimgribber. This dissertation will [be
for our entertainment] furnish us with entertainment/employment for in] for the succeeding chapter.

After that we shall come to speak of the 5th and
last sort of the imaginary Laws he has given
us: and between them the two we shall have to consider what
he tells us of the divine Laws: and it is not till
after all this labour is at an end that we shall come at last to Mu-
Law Municipal as he calls it, the only Law of

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