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SECT. III. Divine Law.
26. The Law for gaining heaven by efforts of credulity—
27. The Law for not marrying unless you burn too
hot to help it—
28. The Law for not letting your daughter marry
if you can help it—
29. The Law for not executing a Law unless you ne-
-ver broke any—29
29.John VIII,7.

Any body may judge whether there are not parts
of the Law of Nature : [and] as such "coeval with
mankind," "dictated by God himself," "superior in obliga-
-tion to every other."[Parts of the Law of nature these, every one
of them every body
may judge see also.]
Founded only in those
relations of justice, that
existed in the nature of
things, antecedent to any
positive precept. Eter-
-nal, immutable: Binding over all the Globe in
all countries, and at all times: laws that human
Laws derive all their authority, all their force from
are not binding if contrary to: are not to be suffer'd
+p.41 to contradict them are to be transgressed if they attempt
p.42 it Laws tending to entail felicity in all their conse-
-quences: reduceable all of them to their one [pater-
nal] precept, pursue your happiness: so insepa-
rably interwoven with the happiness of each indi-
-vidual, that it cannot be attained if they are not
observed; nor

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of, if they are. To crown all—
necessarily taken by man as the rule of his conduct;
inevitably confrmed to.

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Laws that human Laws are not binding if con-
trary to be --- to contradict:: are
not binding if contrary to:+ +NOTE What does he mean
by binding: they are
not binding upon con
science many of them
not conformable. They are
binding upon the Will, if
the penalty is strong enough
the contrary. v. Sect. 8. are not to be suffer'd to
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