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The fact is, that the same confusion of ideas, <add> which was thus early <hi rend='underline'>dictated</hi>, was never formally</add> | The fact is, that the same confusion of ideas, <add> which was thus early <hi rend='underline'>dictated</hi>, was never formally</add> | ||
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the same abuse of terms appear in this, <hi rend='underline'>declared</hi>: though always <hi rend='underline'>known</hi>, & always <hi rend='underline'>binding</hi></add> | the same abuse of terms appear in this, <add><hi rend='underline'>declared</hi>: though always <hi rend='underline'>known</hi>, & always <hi rend='underline'>binding</hi></add> | ||
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<add>it was <del>always</del> <add>never</add> more than <sic>guessed</sic> at. This great</add> <add>Law</add> | <add>it was <del>always</del> <add>never</add> more than <sic>guessed</sic> at. This great</add> <add>Law</add> | ||
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"we should live honestly, hurt nobody and When this Law was published we know;- "it is coeval with
"render to everyone his due". I believe our are these laws Mankind." By whom we know likewise;- it was by
Author himself would be the first to tell us, God himself:" — But where to whom, &<add>& in what</add>
are all That many of the practices above cited are by terms, we must apply to our Author to learn.—
no means reconcileable to these his immutable As to the first questions;— where this law was published
laws of nature? What consequence will and to whom; our author's
account is not so clear
he draw from hence?
The consequence hence appears to me as one could wish. — But after well weighing what
undeniable either that there is no such
he is pleased to tell us, it
comes out at last that it
universal, uniform, and permanent was not promulgated anywhere, or to any body.
law of nature, as he supposes? of that, if <add>[Speaking of revelation For he says p.42 "that the other (i.e. the Law of Nature)</add>
there is, he has not given us a clear account "is only what by the assistance of human reason
of it? "we imagine to be that Law." <add>/that is the Law of God/ So when this law</add>
The fact is, that the same confusion of ideas, which was thus early dictated, was never formally
the same abuse of terms appear in this, declared: though always known, & always binding
it was always <add>never more than guessed at. This great</add> Law
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