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I cannot help calling to mind upon this occasion a certain
Divine Our Author's I once heard preach, whose notions matched very well
tallied exactly with this of our Author. He was
making his prayer before Sermon; and willing to
pay God Almighty a higher compliment than common,
complimented him with the power of "altering
"events": "O God, who alterest all events": which one sees then can
only be by be but one way of doing which is making them to have happen'd otherwise
than they have. This extra-ordinary power
which the good Divine in the fullness of his zeal attributed to God Almighty,
our Author attributes without ceremony to human
Judges; who seem according to his notion, to have possessed
in this respect a power superior to that of the Legislature. All that the our
domestic Legislature does by these fro imported Laws is
to make them have been what they have been: It
a stroke of legerdemain reserved for Judges to
made them not to have not been what they have been.
All that is plain clear in this whole business, is that those
ideas annexed by our Author to these terms are exquisitely composed.
The truth is the word written is used by
him to express two ideas; both of them quite different
from the idea annexed to the word in common
language, and each of them totally different from
the other [as different each of them the one from the other
as both are from that annexed to it the word in common
language.] This being the case we cannot wonder to
sense if it at one time predicated affirmed & at another denied
of the same subject.

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