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SECT. Divine Law. (2

he keeps in store for him, like
and Unbelievers A common appellation -tive Indices that our Author condescends to tread the career of humble prose.
could not be refused to characters so allied in
a question of evidence, and men of false taste in
the affairs of love.

To this plea, [however, that I have mentioned. if urged] I must demur. Sacred
as is the Divine Law and the holy Scriptures which
contain it, our Author's account of them [I suppose].
is may be as mysterious, but is not quite so sacred. not so. Our Materials thus ample, ample as those he has collected, it was his modesty only that could prevent him from turning making [into] a Gradus ad Parnassum, a set flight of steps to carry him into Parnassus. The ingenious Jesuit, inventor of that useful implement Machine, could not have succeeded in it any better.

These Laws of God's "dictated" "from the first" "by himself"
and all along immed "inevitably conformed to," discover'd
afterwards by reason, and not discover'd, he hath
been pleased time after time to discover again,
not knowing how to make them remember'd at
the first. These Laws are "doctrines": these doctrines
are "precepts": for to teach you that a
thing is done, is the same as to say, "go and
do it". These precept-doctrines are what are
"found, and they are "found only in the holy Scriptures"
written some thousands of years after man
was created. In consequence they are part of this
"really a part" (that is when "they are revealed"), of
the original Law of Nature; for the same reason
that the Municipal Law when it is what it ought
to be, is so too: "They tend in all their consequences

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