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Section II Of the Authors account of the laws of Nature.
To be copied
"This will of his maker (says our Author) Vol:1: P.39.
"is called the law of nature". To make this
will a law, it must have been prescribed,
(according to our author's own definition of
law) that is notified to all mankind: And
it is the that this He speaks of the same will, which our author he had
before said, man, that is all men, must
To be inevitably follow'd it must be inevitably known. inevitably follow as the Rule of Conduct. To give it the properties and force of Law, it must to this will, according to our Author's own definition of Law, have been prescribed, that is notified to all mankind. "Because a bare resolution confined in the breast of the Legislator can never bewithout manifesting itself by some external sign can never be properly a Law. and*
*And into accordingly he tells us (p.41) that this law being was coeval "with mankind: being was bindes dictated by God himself: was "binding over all the globe at in all "times countries & in at all times. —
Surely, then it can be no difficult matter to
discover with precision, what this will is,
which has been thus notified to all, and is thus
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