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Indirect legislation
Diverting
But the truth is there is no such
variance repugnance . The sabbath as kept in the
with us in England is a purely human institution may be pronounced boldly to be
be an invention purely human: there
is not a single text for it. The argument foundation
of it in favour of it is simply neither more nor less than
this: the Jews by the in obedience to the
peculiar system of laws given to them refrained
from labour during one day of the
day; therefore we who are not Jews ought are bound to
abstain from every thing that is agreeable amusing to
us on a different day.
Quod futuit Glaphyram
Antonius
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