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Show l 234 l [235] fame point, (the Omnipotmcc of Parlfap ment,) has unguardedly faid, " True it and Confideration which we owe, not only to our brethren and countrymen, Hh 2 but " is, tlmz‘ wlmt the Parliament (lot/J, no " Authority upon cart/J can undo." 1 Corn. p. 161. But that worthy Gentleman needs only to be reminded, that if it {hould unfortunately happen, from any werjig/Jt or mifimder/lana'z'ng, that, " what " the Parliament dot/J" is in the leaf: , , i' A war-mu "W's" " "mum um smut lg.» .2 {ill l1 , l; V Gammon Serf/2', are naturally qualified to diltinguilh whether Laws are deficient in any of thefe refpefls, Nature, pure Morality, natural Equity and Juf'tice ; or to that Benevolence (79) or are contrary to Rug/2n ; for the Law or Reason: is an univerfal Law -- " Su-z‘éimrque rune Lex in rarde CUJUSLIBET Homrxrs, damn mm quid a- (79) This Brnemlmre, or due Car/fidemtr'an for the natural Riglm of all mankind is properly called 7:: \ I (‘ " gem/um, e! gm‘a‘ fugimr/zmz," (for which the learned Author quotes the Epiflle to the Romans, chap. 2, and then proceeds) " et 71ml Lax RATIONXS in (on/e "‘ jlrz'ditur, idea deleri 71m ponfl, net etiam recipit mum- Gem‘ium, the Law qf Nnrz'oru ;" which univerfal Law (as " Iz'rmem ex low Ire: trmpare, jéd uligzze ET INTER 0M- ‘ The Law of Nations feem: to be almofl banifhed at this time from Eurofir. Thelare felonious and arbitrary Divifion of Poland between three ofthe greatcfl Powers in Europe: The late lniquiwu: (I RALIA IMMUTABXLIA SUNT, at with immurariam‘: (l a]? quad reapiunt Natural): rti pr!) furm'ammto, gut t l on earth can make lawful; (fee note in p. 185 8: 186.) and mm of all ranks, and in all places, that have contrary either to the Laws of Reafon, and If (as likewife ALL THE OTHER HEADS above-mentioned) is necelTarily included in what is commonly called naturul Religion, confifling of the primary or tier/ml Law: of God ; and whatfoever is contrary to any ofthefe is " lVlALUM 1N 5E," which no authority attempts againlt the antient Republic of Venice and the Swifs Can- tons, and the late unjul't Claims upon the free Cities of Dnntzick, Hamburgh, 5:. The Robberies and horrid Murders which, for thefc ten years pall, have been committed by the French on thepoor wretched Inhabitants of the little llland of Curfica, upon pretence of an mtIaauful Ceflion of Sovereignty from the Genoefe ; and the like abominable Iniquity. upon the like fall-e pretence, lately carried on, even by the Eng/1]}; themfelves. againlt the poor helplefs Charibhs at St.. Vincent's : - are n elancholy Proofs, either that the Europeans in general are molt profoundly ignorant of the Laugf Narionr, or that they are fallen into a Rate of the molt abandoned Wiekedncfs and Ptofligacy. " mes HOMINES firrvan' dréet. Nam jURA NATU- " jémper ear/em (fl er aligns." Dofi. ct Stud. cap. 2. Any A'fl: if Parliament, therefore, which are contrary either to Nature, to :fl/iiw, to Morality, or to Bentwolame, &c. are contrary to REASON, (that Ray of the divine Nature, and fupreme Law,) and confequently are null and mid. being mere Corruptions, (corruptelx,) and not Laws; for " tantra mm" (Rationem) " 71ml {fl pnefirr'ptio "val appoflmm flatutumfr-ve conflu" tmla; 22‘, fl aliguafat, NON SUN'I‘ STATUTA, " five Corgfiztiudiner, fld CORRUPTELIEr" 5":Doft. et Stud. p. 5. b. |