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[ xi ] some other things, which seem to bear relation to it; as Counsel, which requires reasons to produce an obligation, &c.

“But Law,” (says he,) “though it ought not to want its reasons, yet these reasons are not the cause why obedience is paid to it, but the power of the Exactor; who, when he has signified his pleasure lays an obligation on the Subjects to act in conformity to his decree, though perhaps they do not so well apprehend the reasons of the injunction,” &c. and, after citing a similar passage from Mr. Hobbs, he adds,