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Show [ xviii ] [ xix ] " which the greater mzméer give can mt" " f'lxmflor," .he capricious WI]! of mere (as he himleii remarks in the preceding paragraph) " 2's tar/em for the Willa/Id De" tree of (t/l;" to that, l‘y this means, a 'w/Jolt' Nation is as capable of makingr a Covenant or Cortzpao‘l as an Individual ; and 1 will only add, to what the Baron temporal fullible Sovereigns, which he f‘t'zppofes to be Law, independent ofall Corny/1c)"; or Cakuzxztt exprcffed or im- lied l Thu: l hope l have traced, to the very has allowed about the bind/74¢ of tire/é rinundation, the Btron's error in denyingr he principle or maxim beforcmentionetl: ‘w/JO d{]]é72t, that they are bouiid 0724:? [o jizr as the impolEd Cal/1:322:25}; is coniiltent (concerning the neceflity of popular q~ with their fajita/107‘ Coven/wt and duty to God, which is always to be imp/2312': for even the-SOVEREIGN of the Pf/"ar/d, THE flat in Legiflationfi for, if he had not attempted to fepamte the idea of a Ca":mmt from Law, he could not have over- looked the ahfolute {High/Sty of thofe KING or KINGS, who alone can he laid pretended Laws which are ordained only to have an air/blade Right to govern his creature man without afrer CC'UWZIZIZL‘, ( if'he by the 1V2?! and " Power 0/. the Exac- had been pleated to to do,) has neverthelefs " tor I" becaufe the meaneft profeflbr of the Englith common Law would have condefcended to include all his pofitive Laws in two cxprcfs Inga/'Cmrcizrz/its, the 0/(1 and the 726w, hoth of which have been from time to time confirmed and fulfilled, and {till relpcdirely lubhtt to this day in all points, wherein the former is not l‘u‘perledcd, and fulfilled by the latter. It therefore ill becomes told him, that every fubmiflion, ijmi/Z', or agreement, that is extorted by fear and campu/flozz, is (according to the Law of Nature) totally null (122d void 2'72 Mai/f; and he himfelf is fnfliciently fenfible of thisin another place (to). And, even if c 2 an this learned Civilian to feparatc the idea of a Caz/‘iy‘wff or Cat‘s/mat from: Law; and more efpecially when re endeavours thereby to clishlith " [Kw I'atcrr ry‘" the " Exact/2r," (to) " Thofe prom/ft: then, or path, we take to be " invalid, which a man is ramps/[rd to engage in, by " the wg'u/t form of the party to whom they are made; " {or lince he, who extort: any thing from another by " uling unjult terrours, is é} (be Lu-w ofNazm-u brrund " to reltore it, and mufl confequc‘ntly make golad " writ |