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Fallacies
Note (a)
V. ad superstitionem
Ch. 2. Jephthah's Vow
§.4. Coronation Oath
8
35(a) or 14(a)
Of Jesuits no need
to a King who has
Blackstone. In do
Commentaries Introd.
§.2. pp 41, 42 he
finds "no human laws
"are of any validity ...
"if contrary to ....
"the law of Nature, as
"dictated by God himself"
.... or "the Law
of Revelation."
Mention
Note (a)
Mention has been of Jesuits But Jesuits? — what need
can a King of England have of Jesuits so long as he has
Blackstone?
With [the word] the name of God in his mouth, what is it that
man can may who has power not do?
Is a law troublesome to him? He takes up his consults with Consulting
Blackstone, and he finds that it need not be troublesome to there ends his trouble
him any longer: the word name of God is pronounced; and
immediately the law becomes null and void: the state of things
is exactly as it would have been had there never been
any such law
Turning to Opening the Introduction, §.2. p. 41. he finds sees
"a law of nature .... dictated by God himself .... is spoken
of in the character of an existing law, the authority of which
is such that "no human laws are of any validity, if
"contrary to this." (p. 42.) "Upon these two foundations, the law
"of Nature and the Law of Revelation depend all human
"laws: — that is, no human laws should be
"suffered to contradict these."
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