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as the good or evil of an action cannot
be said to arise from its being commanded, or
prohibited, by what our author calls the divine, or
natural Law; the expression would be just as improper,
& no more so, to say, that what he calls mala
in se, are more or less good or evil, because the
inferior or human legislature does de command
or forbid them. And therefore that this third consequence,
deducible from his positions is just as absurd erroneous as
the others: For this a For his actions called what he calls mala in
se do may be said to contract additional turpitude, or do to
lose a part of their turpitude, by their being
forbidden or allowed by human legislature; in with
to just as much propriety as they are
said to contract this their turpitude from by being
forbidden by the divine Law.

To instances in his own examples of theft & fraud
a Society may exist, nay a Society did once exist,
where the Subjects of property were so inconsiderable,
& so difficult to be stole, where all the possible the
consequences of stealing them was so
very trifling, that theft itself was declared
to be & really was no crime. — Many states exist where
one species of fraud being productive of
more misery than another, it is therefore declared
a

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