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Note
To be copied
Nor would any man have called upon
our Author for an account of what would
have been, if nature, and it's author had
been different: every reader would have been
satisfied had he fairly, and impartially,
told us what is. (end of note end of note)
Our author He will not however leave us long in pain about the Justice of the Creator God: &
Our author therefore adds, "that the Creator the creator <add>as a being of infinite wisdom</add> has laid (Vol: 1. Page 110:
"down only such laws as were founded on those
"relations of Justice, that existed in the nature
"of things anteceding to any positive precept". —
How our Author loves to perplex us. 'the Law of nature is now <add>here spoken of, as a positive principle a law laid down: but when we expect to learn when & where it was promulgated, we</add>
And he tells us, "that the Creator has enabled are put off with the old story: - "that the Creator has enabled
"human reason to discover it these eternal, and
"innevitable laws of good, and evil so far
"as they are necessary for the conduct of human action
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