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SECT. IV. Connection

Perhaps the our Author, full as he is of his Divine and
Natural Laws, might think the human Law establishes
this same justification which makes an La act not be murder
in cases where, it might not to judge of the matter by the and Laws divine and
natural, according to his conceptions of them, might where it might not:
if so, and he should hang a man for killing
one whom the Law had bit him kill; I am should be
sorry for him, he must take the consequences.

The last piece of instruction we hae obtain gain
from this paragraph is rather darker
is the same over again that we had given us by the conundrum before related: the gist of it, as the Lawyers say, the secret being bare and was there being couched in the same word unlawful that comes in here as well as there.

It may as either one of two things: which, we
cannot be certain: but its no great matter:
since one is as curious as the other. These are
either that a Law makes a thing to be against itself
by doing so: or else that it may make it
be against those other Laws when it is seen by the supposition
it is not so. that is not the case. "Matters" there are, in which
the inferior (i:e: the human Legislature) has scope and opportunity
to interpose, and to make that action unlawful
which before was not so."† † p.43. Which of
those the abovementioned points of instruction was meant to be convey'd
depends upon the sense of the word "unlawful",
If that is which of the sorts of Laws it is meant intended to be
applied to. If to the Municipal Law, the first former
if to the two others (which always all along stick fast
to by one another) the latter.

The matters here spoken of, if we want to
know them are "matters that are in themselves indifferent"† † for this I passed over at the first head that it might serve for conceive by way of explanation afterwards; such
are those which are "neither commanded nor forbidden by those to superior
Laws".† What one should wish to know⊞ ⊞ and what of all things I would not undertake to tell is by is
what meaning the word [indifferent as applied to actions has
with our Author: the task would not be easy: for it is not easy

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