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fon, common fenfe, or the natural liberties of 

 mankind : they often are obliged by fuch me- 

 thods to flop the courfe of popular clamour, 

 which would otherwife reduce a well-eftablifhed 

 ftate to anarchy and confufion. The remedy 

 againft fuch inconveniencies is a flack execu- 

 tion of fuch bad laws. I believe, the wifeft 

 of the human face do not exped to find real 

 and abfolute moral juftice and right amonglt 

 the moft honeft and moft experienced of their 

 own fpecies ; for right and wrong, virtue and 

 vice, &c. are differently underftood, according 

 to the different modes, cuftoms, and religions 

 of different countries, and different times in 

 the fame countries -, though, in the unchange- 

 able Divine Will, it would be great prefump- 

 tion in us to fuppofe the leafl variation or 

 fhadow of change. Divine juilice and redtitude 

 muft be abfolutely and conftantly the fame ; 

 but, as we are in our nature very imperfe6l be- 

 ings, our conceptions, words, and adtions, muft 

 be all imperfed ; infomuch, that were ten of 

 the wifeil amongft men, living at the fame 



time. 



