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SECT. VI. Municipal Law
is not a rule, because it is not a rule for ever.
And hence we have a 2d twofold division of
Laws in respect of time: viz into Temporary
Laws, which are not Laws: and into Perpetual
ones which are.
Thirdly we learn, that what is a rule in one
place only is not a rule, because it is not
a rule every where. And hence we gather a obtain a
3d twofold division of Laws: viz to wit in respect of place: that is to say viz into Local
Laws, which are not Laws, and into Universal
ones, which are.
One thing we may be just mentioned by the bye: that he
had no occasion to have said any thing about "a
"rule": a word that stands in just as much need of explanation
as the word Law does.
There is another reason (we find next) We come now to the second occasion for mentioning
Law as being a rule: which which second reason is just as good an one
as what we have seen. the first. This is, "to distinguish
"it from Counsel":⊞ ⊞ otherwise called advice: on which & on this occasion several pretty
Antitheses are introduced.
When a man does what's counselled commanded him he is more
willing to do it, I suppose than to let it alone [else] how else he would not do it
he to do it comes how to else to do it? [I can not for the life of me conceive.]
Now it is much the same to take it in this respect
when he does what the case counselled him. One line must may be
be pardoned to clear up this confusion: Counsel influences
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