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8 SECT III. Divine Law
contradict: are to be transgressed if they attempt it:
this must not be forgotten: particularly concerning those against hanging in chains; and pardoning men convict of murder. And this is our
Author's notion of the deference due in this country
to the Law given to the Jews: (for amongst the
Laws called altogether all together God's Laws
he makes no distinctions): A Right Reverend Father of our Church thinks differently: that a Law; he calls it in which as in which he everything is with most justice, I will not say or consistency, he observes "every thing is extraordinary
that Law in which, as
Bishop with most justice I will not say
observe every extraordinary,
and which ought not to be proposed for
example, any more than for imitation." It is for
the reader to judge which he will side with, the
theological politician, or the political divine.
Here our Author differs from a Bishop: the more's
the pity: we shall now see him differing from
more than a Bishop: we shall see him differing
from Locke.
"Undoubtedly" says our author "the revealed Law is (humanly speaking)"
(a particular sort of speaking, I suppose) of
"infinitely more authority than what we generally
"call the natural Law. Because one is the
"Law of Nature, expressly declared so to be by God
"himself; the other is only, what by the assistance
"of human reason, we imagine to be that Law.
"If we could be as certain of the latter, as of
"of the former, both would have an equal authority:
when two come together "but till then" (which, we are to understand, is, never)
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