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Sect. Interpretation. 27

yet perhaps, wherever plain it may not be alto—
gether without it's use: let us now come back return from
our digression again to our subject.

"If words", (continues our Author under his second
head) be still dubious, (tho' his last preceding case supported
them clearly to be otherwise) we may establish
their meaning by the context; with which it may
be of regular use to compare a word, or sentence
whenever they are ambiguous, equivocal or intri—
cate". One ought here to be at a loss to understand
what this context means, if it is not the words of
the same law; which is what any one would naturally
suppose is to be. Here then, when unable to make
out the sense of a set of words, we are Ince more
soul to get assistance from themselves. For the
context of and a law without further explanation, must
be understood to mean the words that are in of that law.
But to do our Author more than further,
we will suppose him to have observed apprehension
he has at observed; and to have given us to un—
derland, that speaking of under the head of words, he had been means
to speak speaking of a given word or short assemblage of
words of a law, of which words, the meaning
was matter of doubt: and that under the head of
context, for as a further means of understanding finding out that

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