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INTRODUCTION. False Division — Portea Practical influence of the foregoing error [+] v. marg. p.1

Christianity Revelation, in as far so far as it is comes under the nature of a perfect a Law, that
is contains specific precepts along with
a Sanction, can never be consider'd as intending
to regulate men's conduct actions in other aspects
than those in which they are left
free by the State. For [Present] Happiness in this
life being one of it's two ends, & being the evidence that of the
other of them (namely future happiness) in another life being so, is such
& Present Happiness being no otherwise attainable maintainable
than by the subordination of private
interests (or the interests of this or that individual)
to public interest, (or the interest of the
majority) of which interest the State, i.e.
(the rulers for the time being) must be the
Judge — to enjoin a man to draw from it
any role of conduct counter to that which
the state prescribes, would be have been to counteract
its own ends purposes Accordingly the divine Author of our
Religion instead of launching into distinctions
[as his successors have done] between what is Cesar's
and what not his in this

Moses, who with all
the assistance he
had from
found so much difficulty
in keeping
the restive people
he governed in tolerable
subjection
Kept to what would have been the
surprize of others, to
have been told that so
many ages after
his death many
a great people nation in
which a small remnant
of that people
were glad to find
a shelter, many of
his ordinances would
be received with an
obedience of which
saw one

[+] v. Titulum hug. pag.
Blackstone's opinion.
which offers
itself as a firebrand
to the hands of
fanaticism.

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restricted precept "render unto Caesar the things
which are Caesar's; || || i.e. which are in
Caesar's department which may with very little
difficulty or danger be interpreted to extend to
every thing that can be Caesar ( acting with the towards the
end above supposed) case chooses to be his; leaving
always at any rate then enough to be God's, which Caesar can
never reach.

We need not be
afraid: if making
a thing to be Caesar's
was preventing it to
from being God's,
there would always
be enough for
God in of what Caesar
can never
reach.

...."In which",
says no further of
our church, "every
thing is extraordinary
&c.

Note
In truth nothing can be more absurd nothing than to
derive rules to controul the political conduct
of a State from a System in which no thought of . . . . . . . . . .
is any were discovered. + + v. to this effect
1. <sic>Div. Leg. No precepts adapted
to the Station of political command. A
deep silence concerning a situation of things
even then in a manner near at hand in
which that was to be seated in the throne.

It would have been stranged, if even then abandoned
to their own lights] if their own intelligence had had hands<lb?> behind them to prevent their finding out investigating
own

If we were to judge draw
the same inference
from those passages<lb?> of the New Testament
a s from a
common history;
we should say

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