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<head>Sect. III. Divine Law. (3</head> | <head>Sect. III. Divine Law. <hi rend='superscript'>(3</hi></head> | ||
<p> | <p>"to man's felicity." This original Law of Nature <lb/> God "has enabled Human Reason to discover <lb/><note> p 40</note> "so far as it is necessary for the conduct of human<lb/> | ||
"so far as it is necessary for the conduct of human<lb/> | actions." " Not that we are to conclude<lb/> | ||
actions" | "that the knowledge of these truths"(<del>that <gap/> </del> <add>the truths that form</add> this<lb/> part of it)" was attainable by reason, in <sic>it's</sic><lb/> | ||
"that the knowledge of these truths"(<del>that <gap/></del> <add>the truths that form</add> this<lb/> | "present corrupted state." How should <del>they</del> <add>it be</add>? "until<lb/> | ||
part of it) " was attainable by reason, in <sic>it's</sic><lb/> | "they were <hi rend='underline'>revealed</hi> they were <hi rend='underline'>hid</hi>".</p> | ||
"present corrupted state" | |||
"they were <hi rend='underline'>revealed</hi> they were <hi rend='underline'>hid</hi>". | |||
<p>The consequence of all this is, that <add>as</add> these precepts' <lb/> | <p>The consequence of all this is, that <add>as</add> these precepts' <lb/> | ||
Sect. III. Divine Law. (3
"to man's felicity." This original Law of Nature
God "has enabled Human Reason to discover
p 40 "so far as it is necessary for the conduct of human
actions." " Not that we are to conclude
"that the knowledge of these truths"(that the truths that form this
part of it)" was attainable by reason, in it's
"present corrupted state." How should they it be? "until
"they were revealed they were hid".
The consequence of all this is, that as these precepts'
doctrines to (which we now find worth the
epithet "moral" for some purpose or other clapped?? to [before] them) "are
"of the same original ("indeed" of the same original)
as " themselves and the rest of that which
is "the Law of nature; so their intensive/intrusive?? obligation
is of equal strength and perpetuity".
"Yet are they ", yes 'undoubtedly" are they "of
"infinitely more authenticity than" "the Natural
"Law", which, as long as all the while this sentence lasts,
and the next to it, is to ensure than a sort
of a thing called "a moral system, framed
"by Ethical writers".
The reason is plain. The Natural Law, is
not the natural Law but a some??thing "which
we imagine" to be such, taking human reason
(like a Constable, or rather like a feeble
emaciated, bully-beaten Watchman with
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