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SECT. VI. Municipal Law
has to command, or prohibited what is has to prohibit has to command or prohibited what it has to prohibit
it has done its business. it has done it's business.
Were I to be asked what it is I mean when
I call an action a right one, I can should answer, very
readily: neither more nor less than, an action I
approve of: and so of a wrong action, an action
I disapprove of. But this is not the case with
our Author: his meaning, perhaps when he uses
these words, is perhaps at the bottom is no other: but
this is more than he cares to own see. When he is asked
about the meaning of those words, he too has his
answer ready: but in words it is a very different
one. Right he will tell you (at least on any
other occasion which does not shew like the present one
the contradictions such language must lead a man into.
Right I say he will tell you is what is postulated commanded
by the Law of Nature or [perhaps if he thinks
of it by that other sort of Law which is sometimes different
and sometimes the same with it) the Law of
Revelation. Wrong what is prohibited by that same
or those same Laws. The result it is, that we 'tis
are yet to be to our old friend the
Law of nature only in masquerade that we are got back again to once more. Municipal
Law issues commands and prohibitions: however [for it]
to be a municipal Law those commands and prohibitions
must be such commands and prohibitions [all of them] that as are
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