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Sect. III. Divine Law.
'to man's felicity." This original Law of Nature
God "has enabled human reason to discover
"so far as it is necessary for the conduct of human
actions". " Not that we are to conclude
"that the knowledge of these writers"(the writers that form this
part of it) " was attachable by reason, in its
"present corrupted state". How should it be that "until
"they were revealed they were hid".
The consequence of all this is, that as these pre-
uphold doctrines to (which we now find worth the
... "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 starts,
and the next to it, is to ensure than or 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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