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To be copied "by human reason in it's present corrupted state:'
"since we find, that till they were revealed, they
"were hid from the wisdom of Ages." — Poor human
Laws: thou couldst lay them open like volume to us: And now, alas! thou canst not so much as 'touch the binding of the fork. Seriously What idea does the Author mean to give us, of the great reason! but a minute since & thou wast in full possession of the knowledge of these
Legislator of the Universe? He forms in his own
breast a Law, which is to be binding over all the globe,
in all Countries, & in all times, & yet does not condescend
to publish this Law to the very Creatures who are to be
bound by it for thousands of years: & then ,
as it were by stealth, to a small part of his
though it is to bind them all.
He gives them says the learned Judge, sufficient
means of arriving at the knowlege of this Law. —
though to be pure, sufficient as these means were,
they proved insufficient the very first moment,
they were applied, so continued to be ever
after. — This is an.
But, says he, these means would be, sufficient
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