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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 honest
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 here just mentioned; <add>every a man is</add> to conform to it <foreign>nogus vegus</foreign> nolens volens & so it was not worth while to tell us what it is as not
thinking it worth his while.

[A sample of it, however, He has given us. longer This
sample consists of three principles: and they are these.
1st "We should live honestly," p.40 2ndly "we should hurt
nobody;" p.40 thirdly, "we should render to every one his
due." p.40 For 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; for "Jus" means Law <add> but is</add> of </lb> the Municipal Law therefore among the rest. if Jus means Law Thus saith Justinian;
and with Justinian the our author finds
no fault. our Author however says that this is not Not that he will allow it to be all, rather;
since there are "others" p.40 that he knows of.
What these others are, How great our obligation 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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Box	096	Main Headings	comment on the commentaries
Folio number	054	Info in main headings field	sect. ii law of nature
Image	004	Titles	note
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