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SECT. IV. Connection
Blackamoor white, as make it unlawful",
"truly unlawful" d'ye mind me
mind ye me? if it were n't for them.
And now if this is not A clever conundrum this or there never was one:
if one could but tell which of two ways to answer it make it out.
Unlawfulness (in an action) is the its being against Law.
If the an of Human Law against it, and
now of matter of this kind of the 2 sorts
of Laws it that is would unlawful?
against the Law which made it so,
as against those others now that may something at another ?
Be this as it may, we are told that "those human
Laws, that annex a punishment to it, do not encrease
it's moral guilt⊞ ⊞ (its mischievousness perhaps he means, which is very true but which I should have thought scarce worth telling) or which he seems to look upon as much the at one with that same thing, or superadd any fresh obligation
"in foro conscientiæ to abstain from its perpetration".
Forum Conscientiæ is a Latin phrase, shews one's
learning and would comes in very prettily, when a man
knows what he means by it. If our Author does
I give him joy of it: it's more than I do.
What I know of the matter is this. If a man's
fingers itch to committ murder, there are 3
sorts of motives, or of restrictions if the
term please better, proceeding [each from a different from a different sources
source], that may contribute to prevent him:
The fear of being being damned for it (no offence
[I hope] to polite ears) the fear of being hated for it,
and the fear of being hanged for it. Now
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