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they mistook an exception to a general rule, for the
genera rule itself: & then thought themselves justified
in dispossessing the infidels of Lands in of which
they were in righful possession upon the same
principle this author in another place: that on the
conquest of an infidel country, the conquered have
less rights than other conquer nations in the same predicament. Note The intelligent reader will easily perceive cannot mistake nor the candid reader misinterpret my meaning. — I am not examining the validity nor the fitness of the laws of Revelation. I am only exposing the abuses of it men who misapply them, & give them an extension beyond what their Author intended and the examples above cited will prove that these abuses have been productive of the mischiefs, & would be so again, if Men of the Authors turn of mind hold the reins of government in a conquering state
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