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and servants to rob their masters, and that they th 



"let loose the |j .MUKMIU of property and rivi! 



I fancy that it would n-.juire ;j pretty l.'irire ]><>rtio 



that sort of faith which induced tli 



to send witches and wi/:i u r :ll<>ws ; a j>r> 



large portion of this sort of faith, to makeusbeli' 



that the " f France," u 



servants of tit* .oiiid teach sen-ants to rob 



their masters! In short, this prattle of the judge 



seem more than one of those 



Pro' which were loo much in fashion 



at th >te. 



24. II his secoini I'jrraph 



J>.. tiv 88 to he so and so ; 



and tlifi; c >ther qualified expression ; he ta 



of civil i " Then 



avs. that the rule of GROTIUS and others, against 

 whieh In- .ig, "he takes to be false, 



at // h. " lj t/tr l> /." After 



he has made all these qualifications, he then j 

 ceedstosay that such ta 

 and it is a crime which the ! 



with (h"iih! But, as if strickr:i at 



putting the frightful words upon paper; as if feel 

 shame for the law and for England iNt If, he in- 

 stantly begins to tell us. 

 at the trial is intrusted, 



with power t the oifender, in order to the 



obtaining of the Kin^s mercy! Thus he softens- 

 it down. He will have it to be LAW to put a man 

 to deatli in such a case; but he is ashamed to leave 

 his readers to believe, that an English jud^e and an 

 En-lish km- \V<U T LD OBEY THIS LAW! 



!>.>. Let i! -:ir the reasons which he gives 



for this which he pretends to be law. His first rea- 

 son is, that there would be no security for prone 

 if it were laid open to the necessities of the indigent, 

 of which nee > wan but Ike /.'//.'-* them- 



sr/iv.* ctnihl he the judge. He talk< < 

 insecurity;" but, upon my Avord, no insecurity could 

 be half so strange as this assertion of his own. 



