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To be copied perhaps have called the law of Revelation in
aid to the law of nature, (as he had before declared
these to be the two foundations, upon —
which all human laws depend. And so we should have been sent to the Old Testament to pick up a Code of Nations. With much the same propriety, I know, as we might be sent to an act for the suspension of the Habeas Corpus Act, or to a bill of attainder in order to learn the extreme care which our Constitution takes of the Lives, and Liberties of the Subject. This idea I believe scarcely struck our Author, but happily he recollected that, & Happily our Author recollected that He recollected
however that the laws of revelation were are differently
understood by different nations: that
in England they mean certain Books set forth
in the Canons of England; that in Popish Countries
to these are superadded the Books of —
Apochrypha, and moreover, certain traditions,
which a quaint Canonist, once called the common
law, or lex non scripta of revelation.

But though he has avoided this one Absurdity,
he has been far from giving us a clear idea of the he has fallen in to others. <add>For</add>

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Identifier: | JB/096/021/004 "JB/" can not be assigned to a declared number type with value 96.
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Box	096	Main Headings	comment on the commentaries
Folio number	021	Info in main headings field
Image	004	Titles	section iv / the author's account of the law of nations
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c57 / c58 / c59 / c60
Penner	168	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [quartered royal arms motif]]]
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Notes public	[[notes_public::"to be copied" [note not in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	31025
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