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SECT III. Divine Law
contradict: are to be transgressed if they attempt it.
this must not be forgotten:symbol symbol particularly concerning
those against hanging
in chains; and pardon-
-ing men convict of
murder. And this is our
Author's notion of the deference due in this country
to the Law given to the Jews: (for amongst the
Laws called altogether all together God's Laws
he makes no distinctions): symbolsymbol A Right Reverend
father of our Church
thinks differently:
that a Law; he calls it in which as
in which everything is with most jus-
-tice, I will not say
or consistency, he observes
"every thing is extraor-
dinary
that Law in which, as Bishop
with most justice extraor-
-dinary, and which ought not to be proposed for
example, any more than for imitation." It is for
the reader to judge which he will side with, the
theological politician, or the political divine.
Here our Author differs from a Bishop: the more's
the pity: we shall now see him differing from
more than a Bishop: we shall see him differ-
-ing from Locke.
paragraph
"Undoubtedly" says our author "the revealed Law is (humanly speak-
-ing)" (a particular sort of speaking, I suppose) of
"infinitely more authority than what we generally
"call the natural Law. Because one is the
"Law of Nature, expressly declared so to be by God
"himself; the other is only, what by the assistance
"of human reason, we imagine to be that Law.
"If we could be as certain of the latter, as of
"of the former, both would have an equal authority: when
come togethermarginal note text "but till then" (which, we are to understand, is,never)
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