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CERTAINTY PROTECTION
It is a pleasing reflection, that if the exigencies
of his salvation could extort in one single instance+ +from our first great deliverer an accurate an exertion of this
mischievous prerogative, that instance if we may trust the [accurate] Author of the Commentaries has been the
last:+ +3. Comm. p.289. nor has any practice of the race of our
second deliverer been prevailed upon to remember
that he has had it still — He who of his own <add>mere motive</add> has surrender'd
sacrificed valuable prerogatives, to which nothing but his own
moderation delicacy found an improper superfluous objection, will not hardly hesitate
to surrender abandon cancel this, which has neither use nor value,
& which cannot be exerted, but to be abused -
I say, but to be abused - for certainly,++ ++He who can pay his debts & will not, has not honesty he who
can neither pay his debts nor find credit with
any body to answer for , is not independent independency is never free as he
[enough] what he ought to have to fit him for the service of his King.
To speak the best of it [this antiquated prerogative] it
is an useless incumbrance on the Law.
CERTAINTY. In Penal Oeconomical Statutes As for Excise Duties
Give a Bill for discovery variety the Penalty as is done in the
but subjecting to full costs as for instance of those foxed
both Pltf & Defendant. Scarce on that such Bill for an Injunction
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