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whether we say much or whether we say nothing,
"every thing is as it should be.
Their for Of this complexion is the last of the two
paragraphs we have recited. The first being more
explicit, contains what is more manifestly false.‡ There are
no precepts no such things as any "precepts", nothing
"by which man is commanded" to do any of
those acts pretended to be enjoined by the
pretended law of Nature. If any man knows
of any let him show produce them. If they were
producible, we should not need to be puzzling. at But
the business of "discovering" them", as our author
soon after tells us we must† †p.49 Comm, p. 40., by the help of 'reason'.
"This will of his maker" continues on author,‡ ‡Bacon p. 39.
"is called the Law of Nature. For as God when
"he executed matter, and endoud endued it with a
"principle of mobility, established certain rules for
"the perpetual direction of that motion; so when
"he created man, and endowed him with freewill
"to conduct himself in all parts of life
NOTES.
+ An observation made by our author upon reviewing
the persecutions to which dissenters are by the laws exposed or by the laws
for worshipping "God according to" their consciences. See
Comm. IV.
++ Insert here Note [a] in Inserenda pp. 1 & 2.
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