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To be copied laws: on the contrary, I think the increase sanction concluded human laws not to be
binding upon conscience.
of them so great an evil, and the arguments He forgot that the general princi <add>to obey the will of the</add>
against them
it, so many, and so forcible,</del>
legislature is that to obey a general
& uniform obedience to the will of the legislature
that I am sorry to see it opposed by the
is <add>one of the first of all moral & civil duties. — That no one
has a right to chuse in what instances he will or will</add>
fanciful idea of ensnaring mens consciences. not obey. —
We forgot, that it is
This paragraph to be inserted in p. 102. after the words "prohibition" — [I have dwelt the longer on this part of our
author's introduction, because I think, that the
Principles he seems to establish, are of the
most dangerous tendency. For though it
would be difficult to draw a precise idea —
from what he has here advanced, yet I —
think the Common, and inattentive reader
will naturally conclude, that so long as he can
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