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But baring our Author to descant at his ease on the action
of inactive matter; on the obligation of unconscious
Being; on acts of
involuntary manner: it must signify,
that man when he is said to obey laws
of his creator, or to be bound in by them, has
no other kind of obligation, than the stone
has, when it gravitates to the center: or in
other words, that the laws of his Creator do,
by some natural violence, so constraininghim,
as to render it impossible for him to act other-
wise, than as they direct. And indeed in
another place, our author declares this to Vol. 1 Page 59.
be the strict sense of obligation. Yet howe-
ver Variously the word obligation mayPage 57
have been used, it has always supposed a power in Ag the Agent either to act or not to
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