Let. 26. Lord BoLINGBROKE 29

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paſſions, he will not allow-that the Creator hath implanted in the human mind any thin

of good and evil, of right and wrong. as ligion ridiculor who maintain, that there is„a moral ſenſe or inſtinck, by

which men diſtinguiſh what is

thuliaſts in ethics, and as rẽ ndering natural T

Irr„. good from what is

„morally evil, and perceive an a or diſagreeable in- **F tellectual ſer— **⁴ο be acquired i

1 *¹ ſophical devotion, but aſſume it to 46

be natural ².“ „

And now we may form ſome judgm

nt, how thor's declarations concerning th abſolute cl⸗ certainty, of the law of nature b he makes with a view to ſhew that all ext is entirely needleſs.

He tells us, that ‧the law of nature h

„e all the preciſion that God can give, or man deſire

he proves, becauſe“%the nature of

morality of actions is concerned, and'the laws of our nature conſedt «c from it b.“ It is to be obſerved, ciſion he here attr ib utes him 4 be of

— A nTHA dlearnéels and pré—

ture is ſapp

he a be Obvlous to all

Aueah that informatiol CC

fied to ſearch into ; and to form his

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em of religion, of 1 59 can he conſiftent! cently known to all, when according to him 1 2 of the wi ſcſt men in all ages, and mankind in gener he ſuch importance rel ating to a diſtinét ſubſtance from tl

— of the hum nan ſyſte

laws and rules for his

ſuppoſe, that the human