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Sect. I. Law in General. (8
Bound. import of the word "Law," that it's own import as applied to human
actions is no otherwise to be defined than by means of that same word.
When a man is bound to do an act, it is as we have seen , by his being
liable to be punished by virtue of a Law , or by a command at
least, if he does it not.
"When he put that matter into motion, he established certain Laws
"of motion, to which all under it's government moveable bodies must
"conform." Thus continues he when the supreme being formed the "universe,
and created matter out of nothing, he impressed certain —
"principles upon that matter , from which it can never depart, and without
"which it would cease to be." This is then one character of a Law:
"that that which is governed by it cannot depart from it, and that if it were,
"to quite it, these would be an end to it's existence ; To the existence not of the
Law, I mean but of the thing , whatever it be , that's is governed by it. Hence [if it]
should it come out hereafter that there is such a sort of an animal as
is called Man , and that for this animal there are such things —
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