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Parts of a Law. Inserenda Penalty alone binding.
Our Author nurtured in that of Casuistry Sanctuary of religion
where men can scarce step a man steps not across a gutter
but he breaks an oath to break a Law, nor breaks a Law
but he must break an oath ,[swallows with
the greediness that might be expected , the only
wretched opiate that invented by — Right Reverend Empiricism has physician of the soul
invented to stupefy the wounded excoriated lacerated conscience.]
had a particular an hereditary
ground of attachment propensity
to this doctrine.
This doctrine is in
effect no other than
that comfortable one
invented by a Right
Reverend Physician
of the Soul: as and subjoined in an
Appendix to the Oxford Statute Book:
an opiate to stupefy
men under the pangs
of conscience,
harassed by Oaths
[known to be] impossible
to be observed] that
no one man ever failed of
breaking.
harden stupefy man against under the pangs of conscience.
This is the very doctrine of the equivocator Saunderson.
Binding upon conscience : i:e: that the Political
Sanction was not the Religious. But does not the
Directory part of the Political take the Religious
with it.
Come whence it will, it is still pain and pleasure.
The Directory part of a Law is the compleat expression of absolute unconditional
will. The Sanctional part compleat if they omit that word
of the sentence that points to the condition, the conditional particle be
omitted , is an expression of a will indeed , but of a
will that is not of him who speaks it: the Legislator: if it be
inserted then it is plainly no expression of a will
but only a fragment of such expression
Note p. 37
The nature of making a thing less than it imperfect to was before
[2by adding something to it] 1of making a sentence imperfect
may at first sight seem paradoxical.
But considered as a sentence , such an addition makes
it no longer that short but entire sentence it was without
but part of another sentence more complex : of which the
remaining part is yet behind it is an addition in words but a subtraction in effect
As a proposition : it has the force of an exception : and
as such by taking out of it a part of what it contained leaves it
less than it was at first : leaves the less subject less extensive than it was without it.
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