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To be copied "make the transgression a moral offence:
"the only obligation in conscience is to submit
to the penalty, if levied." Now, is it not
clear, that this prohibitory law does really,
and truly create a property where it did not
exist before: does vest that property in certain Persons?
to whom it gives them the exclusive Right of
enjoying it, in the same manner as it gives
to Titius the exclusive right to his field? And
therefore, if, If then in the first case, it was a matter the bare circumstance
point of conscience not to invade, or withold the field, of the Law's deciding about matter of right makes it a
, in this case it must be equally matter of conscience, the same circumstance occurring in the latter
not to withold, or invade the game. Now
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