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B Addenda to Sect. iii. Law of Revelation.

Nay The futility of our Author's Argument will appear from
the very instance our author he himself has cited: — Vol. 1. p. 43 "To instance, says
"he, in the case of murder, this is expressly forbidden by
"the divine, and demonstrably from by the natural Law,
"and from these prohibitions arises the true unlawfulness
"of this Crime. — If any human law should enforce allow, or
"us enjoin us to commit it we are bound to transgress
"that human Law or else we must offend both the natural
"& the divine." — Now Now, if there is any meaning in this argument by murder here must be understood. simply the taking away the life of another, in cases where it is not permitted so to do by the divine or natural Law but and on this Sense
& enjoin us to commit murder take away life do not the Laws of England allow Has not the learned Judge as the mouth of that Law commanded murder life in many cases where
to be committed taken away in many cases, where
neither the divine Law, nor our Author's natural
Law have allowed or enjoined it? Which of them
has told has told him that a man's life should
be the forfeit of stealing a Horse? which of them
has told him, that all the outrages contained in that angry,
ill digested, & inhuman Law called the Black Act, should
be paid for by the Loss of Life. — Ay, but says our Author,
This is not murder: the Law allows it: it is done by or this is an act of Justice: done by with the consent,
and by order of the Magistrate. — For murder is the wilful and
felonious killing of another upon malice forethought. True,
my dear most learned Judge, so says the Law of England at this day: at another in the
time of Henry 1. murder was killing a man secretly: & that man
too must be an Englishman & not a foreigner. Now your
must reason very oddly logic must be of a singular nature, if this does not prove to you, that the
human Laws to modify, change & allow what you are pleased to call the divine

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[[notes_public::"to be copied / to be omitted" [notes not in bentham's hand]]]

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