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Show [xxiv] ] mui't be fenfible that we {tand {elf-con- demned by Conflimce (which is only another name for " the knowledge of Good " and Evil") whenever we offend againlt the 7mm! Law: of God, by which our Agreement and A'flim‘ to the juitice of them are {ufhcieutly hiya/it'd and acknowledged (I5) : And, with refpeét to what the Baron has likewife infinua‘ted concerning the want of [271mm agreemrlzt to the " div/fie pa/itz'm Laws," the direct contrary thereto is clearly demon- {trated (as I have before hinted) by the remarkable examples of tWO incon-tefii- ble legal Comrmnisbetween God and Man, the Old and New Tel'taments, thofe two original written Charters or Grant: of invite his creature Man, might perhaps be liit‘hcient for my prefent purpofe, without dcfcending to farther particulars; but yet, as 1 received extraordinary fatisfaflion myfelf in tracing minutely the manner in which the {aid Covenants have been tendered and ratified, Ian} in- clined to liuppofe that many of my Readers will reap the fame fatisfaction by perufing fome examples of it, becaufe they demonfirate the rm! dz'gnz'ly and natural Rights of MAN, far beyond any thing thatl could poliibly have conceived before] made the {aid Examination with this particular view to the Freedom of Man; and as I haVc too much reafon to PERFECT LIBERTY;tlieonecontainingthe apprehend, that many of my country- Promifir, and the other, the decomp/z' 2- men have overlooked or neglected thefe' flrz'lzz'ng Irv/fame}, which relate to the prefent (object, the Rig/9t offlflent; I propofe to add (fometime hereafter, as foon asI can pofiibly find leifure to revife it for the mm! of our glarz'ozrs Freer/om ; which we are bound to maintain and defend to the hit moment ofour lives I The mention that has already been made ofthefe two unquei'tionable monuments of the free State and Candi/rim, to prel's) atbz'rdPar‘t alfo to this "Declaration " of the People's natural Right to a Share which the Almighty has been pleafed to " in the Legiflaturef' which 3(1Parz‘ (be« invite ing founded on fame remarkable examples in Scripture, concerning the gracious and (ls) lhave traced this {ubjeét more a: large in a feparate Tract on ‘f the Law of Nature and Prim/fly; .fxi'fz'zm m lVlA N," intended alto for the l'rcl‘s. molt liberal mode whereby the ream/ad Laws, wen qf God bring/95f, have been d tend-:rcd |