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if <hi rend='underline'>Jus</hi> means Law of </lb> | if <hi rend='underline'>Jus</hi> means Law of </lb> | ||
the Merciful Law therefore among the rest. Thus saith Jus-<lb/> | the Merciful Law therefore among the rest. Thus saith Jus-<lb/> | ||
-tinian; and with Justinian the author finds </ | -tinian; and with Justinian the author finds <lb/>no fault. Not that he will allow it to be all,rather,<lb/> | ||
since there are "others" that he knows of.<lb/> | since there are "others" that he knows of.<lb/> | ||
What these others are, how great our obligations to him, had he told </ | What these others are, how great our obligations to him, had he told <lb/>us! There are but three: more than so many again there could not surely be. So great an Emperor as Justinian, an Emperor whose words are made authority, | ||
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Known therefore it should seem it is already
by myself: for one example; by our Author, for
another: by the man that sweeps our Chimney's
for a third. [To begin with myself about whom
I can be the surest, I protest upon the word of an hon-
-est
man, I can not find by any of the accounts I have the description given it
made written, that there is any such thing at all.
If he knows what it consists of, I amongst many
others would have been infinitely obliged to him
to have told us. This he has not done: probably
for the reasons just mentioned; as not
thinking it worth his while. we are every man is to conform to is nogus vogus nolens volens: & so it was not worth while to tell us what it is.
[A sample of it, however, He has given us. This
sample consists of three principles: and they are these.
1st "We should live honestly," 2ndly "we should hurt
nobody;" Thirdly, "we should render to every one his
due."
A pretty large sample too it should seem
to be; for Justinian says, that here is all of it:
Not only of it indeed, but of every thing that is known
by the name of Law; </lb>
if Jus means Law of </lb>
the Merciful Law therefore among the rest. Thus saith Jus-
-tinian; and with Justinian the author finds
no fault. Not that he will allow it to be all,rather,
since there are "others" that he knows of.
What these others are, how great our obligations to him, had he told
us! There are but three: more than so many again there could not surely be. So great an Emperor as Justinian, an Emperor whose words are made authority,
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