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When this Law was published we know —- "it is coeval with Mankind." By whom we know likewise — it was by God himself. But where to whom, in what terms, we must apply to one Author to learn. As to the first questions; where this law was published and to whom; our author's account is not so clear as one could wish. But after well weighing what he is pleased to tell us, it comes out at last that it was not promulgated anywhere, or to any body. For speaking of he says p.42 "that the other (i.e. the Law of Nature) is only what by the fance of human reason we imagine to be that Law." that is the Law of God So when this law which was thus early dictated, was never formally declared: though always known, always binding it was always never more than guessed at. This great Law

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Date_1		Marginal Summary Numbering
Box	096	Main Headings	comment on the commentaries
Folio number	005	Info in main headings field
Image	004	Titles	section ii / of the authors account of the laws of nature
Category	collectanea	Number of Pages	4
Recto/Verso	recto	Page Numbering	c15 / c16 / c17 / c18
Penner	168	Watermarks	[[watermarks::gr [quartered royal arms motif]]]
Marginals		Paper Producer
Corrections	jeremy bentham	Paper Produced in Year
Notes public	[[notes_public::"to be copied" [note not in bentham's hand]]]	ID Number	31009
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