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To be copied Law, which is to be the foundation of all other Laws,
proves at last to be no more than the deductions of
every any man's reason, or the dreams of any mans
fancy.

Not so, says our Author, "for they are eternal & immutable: the Creator has enabled
"human reason to discover their eternal them & immutable
"laws of good & evil so far as they are necessary
"for the conduct of human actions." — Indeed."
if we can discover them, we can, what are these eternal & immutable
Laws,are, we do something more than imagine
what they are. Though our Author is
apt to mistake his own fancies & imaginations,
for discoveries; yet to other men imaginations & discoveries, they are very different things.
But this power of discovering the eternal
& immutable Law, was only given to Reason only
when the Law of Nature was in favor with him.
our Author. Presumably the Law of Revelation
gets the first place, upper hand & then the poor Law of
of Nature is left to make itself known as
it can — "For we are not to imagine (
[ — (I do not know what it is our Author does not allow himself to imagine) — But we are not to imagine — p. 42
"that the knowlege of these truths" — (where
by truths he means precepts)" was attainable by

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