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SECT. VI. Municipal Law.

time) a Promise I say or make made by persons
living under Laws (Municipal Laws to prevent
cavils) is neither of a sort that the Laws will enforce
and lend their sanction to, or one that
they will not. If not of the 1st sort, it carries
it is plain an obligation equal in point of conscience
to that of a Law: whatever is meant by conscience because
it carries with it that very obligation; whatever it be that the Law has. For the Law adopts
that promise as part of itself, and gives it its
own sanction. If of the latter sort whatever
other obligation it may carry with it, it has
not that of the Law.

Thus much for the affair of obligation: but the "point of
conscience" remains still unsettled. We have already
intimated that people are may be deterred from doing
an act by three sorts of ears: by the expectation
of pain proceeding from three different sources
(to speak of those in which intelligent agents are conceived
to be concerned) 1 From the displeasure of
the Deity. 2. from the displeasure of man ⊞ ⊞ &amp death vented
[to be] upon uncertain occasions, by uncertain persons, and in uncertain quantities, such as it is: and 3rdly from the displeasure of man ascertained
man assessed and notified announced &by and regulated by Laws. Now of
those 3 sorts of pains, the first only, is that whereof the expectation of which, as man commonly speaks man is apt to according to common speech is
said to touch the conscience: that which is created,

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