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<head>SECT. III. Divine Law. | <head>SECT. III. Divine Law. | ||
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26. The Law for gaining heaven by efforts of credulity—< | |||
27. The Law for not marrying unless you burn too<lb/> hot to help it—< | |||
28. The Law for not letting your daughter marry<lb/> if you can help it—< | <p>26. The Law for gaining heaven by efforts of credulity—</p> | ||
29. The Law for not executing a Law unless you | |||
Any body may judge whether | <p>27. The Law for not marrying unless you burn too | ||
to every other."<!-- symbol --><note>[Parts of the Law of nature these, every one | <lb/> | ||
hot to help it—</p> | |||
<p>28. The Law for not letting your daughter marry | |||
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if you can help it—</p> | |||
<p>29. The Law for not executing a Law unless you never | |||
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broke any—<hi rend='superscript'>29</hi> | |||
<note>29.John VIII,7.</note></p> | |||
<p>Any body may judge whether these are not parts | |||
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of the Law of Nature: [and] as such <add><del><gap/> <gap/> unstable</del></add> "coeval with | |||
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mankind," "dictated by God himself," "superior in obligation | |||
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to every other."<!-- symbol --><note>[Parts of the Law of nature these, every one of them; every body may judge <add>see</add> also:]</note> | |||
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<note><!-- symbol -->Founded only in those | |||
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relations of justice, that | |||
existed in the nature of things, antecedent to any positive precept. Eternal, immutable:</note> Binding over all the Globe in | |||
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"all countries, and at all times: Laws that human | |||
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"Laws derive all their authority, all their force from | |||
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"are not binding if contrary to: are not to be <sic>suffer'd</sic><note><hi rend='superscript'>+</hi>p.41</note> | |||
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"to contradict <del>them</del><!-- symbol --> <note><!-- symbol --> p.42</note> are to be transgressed if they attempt | |||
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"it Laws <del>so <gap/></del><add>tending to man's</add> felicity in all their consequences: | |||
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reducible <del><gap/></del> all of them to this one [paternal] | |||
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precept, pursue your happiness: so inseparably | |||
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interwoven with the happiness of each individual, | |||
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that it cannot be attained if they are not | |||
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"observed; nor <unclear>missed</unclear> of, if they are. To crown all— | |||
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necessarily taken by man as the rule of his conduct; | |||
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inevitably conformed to.</p> | |||
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Laws that human Laws are <del>not binding if contrary | |||
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to <gap/> are not to be suffered to contradict:</del>: are | |||
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not binding if contrary to:<hi rend='superscript'>+</hi> <note><hi rend='superscript'>+</hi>NOTE What does he mean by binding: they are not binding upon conscience many of them not <hi rend='underline'>conformable</hi>. They are binding upon the Will, if the penalty is strong enough the <hi rend='underline'>contrary</hi>. v. Sect. 8.</note> are not to be <sic>suffer'd</sic> to</p> | |||
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SECT. III. Divine Law.
26. The Law for gaining heaven by efforts of credulity—
27. The Law for not marrying unless you burn too
hot to help it—
28. The Law for not letting your daughter marry
if you can help it—
29. The Law for not executing a Law unless you never
broke any—29
29.John VIII,7.
Any body may judge whether these are not parts
of the Law of Nature: [and] as such unstable "coeval with
mankind," "dictated by God himself," "superior in obligation
to every other."[Parts of the Law of nature these, every one of them; every body may judge see also:]
Founded only in those
relations of justice, that
existed in the nature of things, antecedent to any positive precept. Eternal, immutable: Binding over all the Globe in
"all countries, and at all times: Laws that human
"Laws derive all their authority, all their force from
"are not binding if contrary to: are not to be suffer'd+p.41
"to contradict them p.42 are to be transgressed if they attempt
"it Laws so tending to man's felicity in all their consequences:
reducible all of them to this one [paternal]
precept, pursue your happiness: so inseparably
interwoven with the happiness of each individual,
that it cannot be attained if they are not
"observed; nor missed of, if they are. To crown all—
necessarily taken by man as the rule of his conduct;
inevitably conformed to.
Laws that human Laws are not binding if contrary
to are not to be suffered to contradict:: are
not binding if contrary to:+ +NOTE What does he mean by binding: they are not binding upon conscience many of them not conformable. They are binding upon the Will, if the penalty is strong enough the contrary. v. Sect. 8. are not to be suffer'd to
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