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SECT. VI. Municipal Law

Will. Counsel by suggesting motives that subsisted already:
Law by creating motives that did not subsist
before.

Liberty, reasonableness, unreasonableness, approbation,
willing, unwilling... had he settled with himself
the meaning of all these words before he had sat
down to write this the paragraph they stand in, the men's
ear ears would have lost some amusement entertainment: but their judgments
apprehensions† † conceptions would have been saved spared the vexation toil ofo seeking
for instruction where there is none. no instruction is dwells.

There is yet a third purpose for which it a Law is
called a rule: that is to distinguish it from a
Compact or what is another word for the same
thing from an Agreement. And this it does about
as well as it distinguished it just now from Counsel.

The Law bids me do a thing: this I consider
and do it, in doing it I make the Law a rule to act by.
I have counselled counsel, a which is the same thing
advice given me to do a thing. O consider that advice, &
do it, and doing it, I make the advice that is given me a rule
to act by. Why is not this as proper as the
other?

What follows if it were it ever so true would
be nothing to the purpose. A Law, he endeavours
to shew, is different from A Compact: which
certainly is true. But it is not But what it is that makes them so? The one followed
being a rule, & not the other, that makes them one not? is not that which is By no means.

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