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SECT. Parts of a Law.
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Whether binding
upon Conscience.
of that sort which comes more immediately from God, is the only sort men
in general, as far as they are agreed about the use of
the word, [conscience] or at least that our author, will speak of
as being binding upon conscience. If It is the nature
of the will (that is of man in the business of volition)
to be governed by motives and by nothing else but
motives.] Motives are the expectation idea of pain andor
pleasure. If to the same faculty, Will, men
will give the term conscience, when they speak
of it as being acted acted on by pain or pleasure
expected from above causes that are invisible, which they refuse to it when
spoken of, as being acted on by pain and pleasure
expected from causes that are visible, there is no
help for it, there is no help for it. There is no harm
in it, when it is known to be a question but
The influence of an
expected pain or pleasure
is neither less nor greater
from being said to act the subject that it acts
upon being called will
at one time and conscience
at another.
of words: but till that is clearly settled seen, it is a
source of confusion and of error. It is a means
that the nature is thought to be something different
in the nature of its operation , in the one case from
what it is in the other; although , come from
whence it will; it is still but pain or pleasure.
Now then, as to the reason there is to expect look upon the Religious
Sanction as annexed to Human Laws, whether
it is greater in one case more than another, and in what in particular,
be ready to consider. we shall be ready to consider.
Our Author makes distinctions. and the Italic characters
are set to work to put some variance and sense,
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