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Gods Law.

"the hand shall describe a given space in a given time; to which Law as -
"long as the work conforms, so long it continues it's perfection, and ans-
"wers the end of it's formation."

What onecould be glad to know upon this occasion is whether " not confor-
"ming to a Law be the same as "departing" from it:" because if it is, one mayper-
-ceive see a great change [in the compass of a few lines]in the fate of a thing
which being riddenquestionable reading by a Law, andruns rusty: and that in the compass of a few lines.
that is [under a Law, does not perform as the Law would have it.]
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Just now, this was an accident that could never happen: now it may -
happen, it should seem, at any time; no one knows how soon. If howe-
ver, against possibility, it should; the consequence was, just now, less questionable reading
of existence: at present; the lessquestionable readingonly of perfection. Our Author thinking
Judgement of annihilation seemingrather severe, our author has repented him, it seems,
of the evil, listened to mercy rather than justice, and granted the rebel-
lious creature a kind of conditional reprieve. [Perhaps he] had justHe had
thaquestionable reading] Milton's Adamperhaps added textin his eye.] Another thing oneIshould be glad to
know: and that is, whether the Laws, a workman makes for his clock, are the same sort of things as the Laws of motionhe was just now
speaking of: Laws made as ifquestionable readingby God Almighty; or not? if not, what else
they are, whether the case is, that after God Almighty has made them,
the clockmaker makes them over again? and how in short the engenui-
ty of myourAuthor would contrive to settle matters betwixt God Almigh-
ty and the Clockmaker.

Also a curiosity Ioneshould like to see is a precedent / of a Law such as
it would be proper for a Clockmaker to make for a good eight day -

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