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Place and Time Immutability 7
one class and the other, and a criterion
given by which they may be distinguished?
Both these tasks are no more than persons
of a certain description may with reason
be expected to fulfill: those I mean who
talk so much and with so much pomp.
of the eternal and immutable laws of God
and nature: laws from which those of human
stamp derive all their efficacy, which
they are not to be permitted to contradict, and
which if they do presume to contradict, they
are ipso facto void. Since then God has
given us as you say, these laws, you, who
it seems are in the search & are so sure of it and ought to know what
it is that God has given us: for else of
what laws is it that you are speaking all
the while? Shew us then these immutable
and eternal laws: write them down for us
that we may read them: count them for
us that we may know when it is that are
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