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in voluntary manner, another question arises — of what use are these learned commentaries? When Newhom explained the Laws of Gravitation & optics, he did not do it for the sake of the Light, or Matter <add>Bodies; he did not mean to direct their motions: Before he wrote: the rays of Light were reflected & refracted, the just as they are nowhen as now now: — then as now Bodies gravitated: then as now, they And they would have continued so to do, had he never written at all. And if, the direction of our moral conduct be directed as little in our own power, as the motion of inanimate matter is in it's power, what occasion for a system of Laws? why does the learned professor take so much pains to prove a conformity, which (by the way) does not exist, between the laws of England & the laws of God? And that conformity supposed why is he so eloquent in enforcing obedience to him? these Laws? This is all labor lost, if man is necessitated to obey the Laws of his Creator, in the same manner as the hand of a watch is forced to describe a given space in a given time in consequence of the degree of moving force communicated by the maker. — Saint Anthony preaching to the fishes would be to the full as consisted as respectable a Character as a Legislator prescribing or a professor explaining Laws to such a Being as this. —</add> "dependent Being". And again, "that a State
"of dependance, will inevitably oblige the
"inferior to take the will of him, on whom he
"depends, as the rule of his conduct, in all
"those poiunts, where in his dependance consists: —
"and, consequently, as man depends absolutely
"upon his maker for every thing, it is necessary
"that he should in all points conform to his —
"maker's will". He

Now, if there be any meaning in words, all
this must signify, that the moral conduct of a
man is no more left to his own will, than —
digestion, secretion, or any other branch of vital
œconomy: but is directed in the same involuntary

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