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"ages." in the extracts he has given us from the book of Nature, let us enquire into see how for the two laws coincide. let us only
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, and yet does not condescend to
publish that law to the very people Creatures who are to
be bound by it for thousands of Years; and
then he publishes it only to a small part of his
creatures, though still it is to bind them all. He
gives them indeed, /according to our Author/ sufficient means of arriving at the
knowledge of this law; and yet the moment he allows that
sufficient as these means are, our Author confesses that the
these means are given they become insufficient, moment they are applied they prove to be insufficient,
& so continue to be for ever after.
But says our Author these means would have be
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comment on the commentaries |
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section iii / the author's account of the laws of revelation / note |
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[[watermarks::gr [quartered royal arms motif]]] |
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[[notes_public::"to be copied" [note not in bentham's hand]]] |
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