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To be copied "by human reason in it's present corrupted state:'
"since we find, that till they were revealed, they
"were hid from the wisdom of Ages." — Poor human
reason! but a minute since & thou wast in full possession of the knowledge of these Laws: thou couldst lay them open the volume to us: And now, alas! thou canst not so much as 'touch the binding of the book. Seriously
What idea does the Author mean to give us, of the great
Legislator of the Universe? He forms in his own
breast a Law, which is to be binding over all the globe,
in all Countries, & in all times, & yet does not condescend
to publish this Law to the very Creatures who are to be
bound by it for thousands of years: & then publishes it,
as it were by stealth, to a small part of his bearing
though it is to bind them all.

He gives them says the learned Judge, sufficient
means of arriving at the knowlege of this Law. —
though to be pure, sufficient as these means were,
they proved insufficient the very first moment,
they were applied, so continued to be ever
after. — This is an.

But, says he, these means would be, sufficient

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Box	096	Main Headings	comment on the commentaries
Folio number	007	Info in main headings field
Image	001	Titles
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	1
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c20
Penner	168	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [crown motif]]]
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Notes public	[[notes_public::"to be copied" [note not in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	31011
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