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Or perhaps we mistake our Author's meaning. by We
supposeng the idea of obligation to imply a power of choice, a
misled by sound, as to imagine that the action
power of doing or not doing; whereas our Author means all the while
that we are not bounden by the Laws of another unless they do by
of the stone, which he drops from his hand, is
some natural violence so constrain us, as to render it impossible
for us to act otherwise than as they direct us. And indeed
the same kind of action as the action of a free
in another place,+ + Vol.1.p.57. our Author he declares this to be
the strict sense of obligation.
agent. Could he with any propriety, say, that
Hence I suppose it is that he tells us here - that
the stone is bound, is under an obligation, to
"Man, considered as a Creature, must necessarily be abject to the
of his Creator- for he is entirely a dependent Being:
gravilate.a
"And again that a state of dependence will inevitably oblige the
The reader, perhaps, might not have known,
"inferior to take the will of him on whom he depends, as the
"rule of his conduct, in all there points wherein his dependence
whether the learned author meant to elevate
"consists;- & therefore that as a man depends absolutely when his
"maker for every thing, it is necessary that he thined in all
inactive matter to the rank of a free agent
"him to conform to his maker's will.'

This restriction of the word sense of the word "bounden" may
or to degrade man to the level of inactive matter.
remove the contradiction, of applying the idea of obligationterm to
things animate & inanimate: But then it brings a greater
In the next page his doubts will be satisfied:
difficulty in it's stead. _ For if it be true, as these words of
our author do declare, that the moral conduct of a man
for the author there tells him that, "Man, as a p 39. is no more left to his own will, than digestion, sensetion, or any
""considered as creature, necessarily be subject to the
other deleted textbranchof meer vital oeconomy, but is directed in the same
"willlaws of his Creator, for he is entirely a dependent
involuntary
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Image	003	Titles	section i / account of laws in general
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