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Section III
To be copied
The Author's account of the laws
of Revelation.
"The divine Providence (says our Author) Vol: 1: Page 41 & 42
"has been pleased at sundry times, and
"in divers manners to enforce it's laws(
"(that is what he had before called the laws
"of nature) by an immediate, and direct
"revelation.
"The #Note Note # We shall have occasion to remark afterwards the our author's confounding Doctrines with precepts. A strange mistake for a writer on Jurisprudence". Doctrines thus delivered, we
"call the revealed, or divine law, and they are
"to be found only in the holy scriptures. These
"precepts, when revealed, are found upon comparison,
"to be really a part of the original
"law of nature, as they tend in all their consequences
"to man's felicity." He hadbefore He had before
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