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Law of Nature

"he laid down certain immutable laws of human
"nature, whereby that freewill is in some degree
"regulated and restrained, and gave him also the
"faculty of reason to discover the purport of
those laws," As to the laws themselves one should
suppose by this, being they were given him into his hand. In
a line or two however we shall find that it
is the laws themselves too that reason is to discover.
It If so, it is in the region of non-entity she
must discover them.

One more paragraph as harmonious and as edifying
as the preceding: at the end of it however we begin
to come a little to particulars
"Considering the creator only as a being of infinite
power, continues our author he was able unquestionably to have prescribed
whatever laws he pleased to his creature,
man, however unjust and or severe. But as he
is also a being of infinite wisdom, he has laid down
only such laws as were founded in those relations
of justice, that existed in the nature of things antecedent
to any positive precepts." Nay, our Author might have said, He has been
wiser still: he has laid down in this way at least
no laws at all. Our author has not done justice
to his wisdom. "These" continues our author, "are the

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	028	Main Headings	Comment on the Commentaries
Folio number	040	Info in main headings field	Law of Nature
Image	001	Titles
Category	Text sheet	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso		Page Numbering	B5 / B6 / B7 / B8
Penner	Jeremy Bentham	Watermarks	[[watermarks::GR [crown motif] [lion with crown motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections		Paper Produced in Year
Notes public		ID Number	9305
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