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To be copied But though these laws ( are not attainable by
human reason in it's present corrupted State,
our Author's reason nor rather that of the reason of Justinian, that greatest of all Legislators. having escaped the general
contagion, or being at least, not quite so corrupted
as that of his Neighbors, has found out these
Articles bills of this great Code of nature; with
which he is kind enough to favor the world.

These are that "we should live honestly: hurt nobody
"& render to every one his due".—

As our Author does not pretend to tell us where, & to whom,
these were declared parcels of the Law of Nature: as
he came to the knowlege of the fact meerly by the
lucky incident of his reason's escaping the general
Corruption: — & as your Sceptical people may
not give implicit faith to this the truth of this last incident,
upon which however all depends, I could wish he
had spent a moment or two in proving that these condescended to throw in <add>out a proof or two an argument</add>
or two en passant to prove that these are parcels
of the Law of Nature.

I could even wish he had taken the matter a
little higher: And had began by defining what
he means by the State of Nature: For till we
understand what is meant by the State of Nature,
we cannot tell what to call a Law of Nature When

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