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SECT. VI. Municipal Law.

being the rule of Moral conduct, is "also the rule of
faith".

The contents of the Scriptures contain are of two sorts – expressions
of will intimating what is or is not to be done,
under pain therein declared: declarations of
matter of fact, concerning what exists, or has been done,
as therein is alleged. The first sort are meant
for rules of conduct: "moral conduct" if the Author
likes it, (the it means nothing has no meaning here,)
as it is a pretty word. The second sort are
meant for the rules of faith. In the mean time
they are two things that are perfectly distinct: what is one is
not the other: what is so much of them as is
Law a rule of moral conduct: is not History
a rule of faith.

This is much we may call the first part of the paragraph: and
the second is like unto it. In sound equally
agreable: in sense equally instructive. But
the particular instruction that is to be gather'd from
it, I must here the reader must pick out as he can.
Something must be left him to do by way of exercise, must every now and then be left him.
For if weighing and explaining every word of those
that requires merit it as much as these, the words near it we should
an end never see an end.

The next thing we learn of Municipal Law the Law we are speaking of is
that it is a rule prescribed. And well for us
it would be things be, much better than they are now, if [it
were so] this were always true. I mean concerning every

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