Book,  Chapter

 1   Read         |           the true boundaries of the law of nature, which ought to
 2   Read         |             part much stray from the Law of Nature; which is that
 3      I,  II    |        mankind give testimony to the law of nature: but yet I think
 4      I,  II    |             can only be the will and law of a God, who sees men in
 5      I,  II    |       transgress, yet disown not the law; where fear of shame, censure,
 6      I,  II    |              infallibly knew to be a law; for so they must who have
 7      I,  II    |             infallibly certain was a law; nor be ignorant that all
 8      I,  II    |              be understood without a law; nor a law be known or supposed
 9      I,  II    |      understood without a law; nor a law be known or supposed without
10      I,  II    |       supposing the ideas of God, of law, of obligation, of punishment,
11      I,  II    |            it has not the force of a law in countries where the generally
12      I,  II    |            Ignorance or doubt of the law, hopes to escape the knowledge
13      I,  II    |         scruple, to offend against a law which they carry about them
14      I,  II    |              defiance to this innate law and supreme Lawgiver, all
15      I,  II    |           the same sense both of the law and Law-maker, should silently
16      I,  II    |         himself in the breach of the law. If, therefore, anything
17      I,  II    |            the minds of all men as a law, all men must have a certain
18      I,  II    |             must accompany an innate law; unless with an innate law
19      I,  II    |           law; unless with an innate law they can suppose an innate
20      I,  II    |             because I deny an innate law, I thought there were none
21      I,  II    |         difference between an innate law, and a law of nature; between
22      I,  II    |         between an innate law, and a law of nature; between something
23      I,  II    |              either affirm an innate law, or deny that there is a
24      I,  II    |              or deny that there is a law knowable by the light of
25      I,  II    |         anything can be capable of a law that is not a free agent.
26      I,  III   |     impossible to have a notion of a law, and an obligation to observe
27     II,  XXI   |         follows from it. The eternal law and nature of things must
28     II,  XXI   |              the enforcements of his law, are of weight enough to
29     II,  XXII  |              of in divinity, ethics, law, and politics, and several
30     II,  XXVII |     intelligent agents, capable of a law, and happiness, and misery.
31     II,  XXVIII|            voluntary actions to some law, whereby good or evil is
32     II,  XXVIII|          observance or breach of the law by the decree of the lawmaker,
33     II,  XXVIII|          must, wherever we suppose a law, suppose also some reward
34     II,  XXVIII|           punishment annexed to that law. It would be in vain for
35     II,  XXVIII|         operate of itself, without a law. This, if I mistake not,
36     II,  XXVIII|            is the true nature of all law, properly so called.~7.
37     II,  XXVIII|           these three:—1. The divine law. 2. The civil law. 3. The
38     II,  XXVIII|             divine law. 2. The civil law. 3. The law of opinion or
39     II,  XXVIII|             2. The civil law. 3. The law of opinion or reputation,
40     II,  XXVIII|          virtues or vices.~8. Divine law the measure of sin and duty.
41     II,  XXVIII|              duty. First, the divine law, whereby that law which
42     II,  XXVIII|             divine law, whereby that law which God has set to the
43     II,  XXVIII|            by comparing them to this law, it is that men judge of
44     II,  XXVIII|            of the ALMIGHTY.~9. Civil law the measure of crimes and
45     II,  XXVIII|       innocence. Secondly, the civil law—the rule set by the commonwealth
46     II,  XXVIII|              be criminal or no. This law nobody overlooks: the rewards
47     II,  XXVIII|       offences committed against his law.~10. Philosophical law the
48     II,  XXVIII|           his law.~10. Philosophical law the measure of virtue and
49     II,  XXVIII|        virtue and vice. Thirdly, the law of opinion or reputation.
50     II,  XXVIII|           coincident with the divine law above mentioned. But yet,
51     II,  XXVIII| fellow-citizens any further than the law of the country directs:
52     II,  XXVIII|           right and wrong, which the law of God hath established;
53     II,  XXVIII|           the true boundaries of the law of nature, which ought to
54     II,  XXVIII|            forgot my own notion of a law, when I make the law, whereby
55     II,  XXVIII|            of a law, when I make the law, whereby men judge of virtue
56     II,  XXVIII|           authority enough to make a law: especially wanting that
57     II,  XXVIII|         necessary and essential to a law, a power to enforce it:
58     II,  XXVIII|               if not solely, by this law of fashion; and so they
59     II,  XXVIII|          many, whilst they break the law, entertain thoughts of future
60     II,  XXVIII|         These three then, first, the law of God; secondly, the law
61     II,  XXVIII|            law of God; secondly, the law of politic societies; thirdly,
62     II,  XXVIII|              societies; thirdly, the law of fashion, or private censure,
63     II,  XXVIII|        correspond to those which the law requires. And thus we see
64     II,  XXVIII|              compare it to the civil law, the rule made by the legislative
65     II,  XXVIII|          patterns prescribed by some law.~15. Moral actions may be
66     II,  XXVIII|        considered in relation to the law of God, will deserve the
67     II,  XXVIII|              the name of sin; to the law of fashion, in some countries,
68     II,  XXVIII|            stands in relation to the law, the distinction may as
69     II,  XXVIII|        denote its contrariety to the law, men are apt to condemn
70     II,  XXVIII|             yet when compared to the law of God, and considered in
71     II,  XXVIII|       relation of human actions to a law, which, therefore, I call
72     II,  XXXII |            to be conformable to that law which is the standard of
73    III,  V     |      communication. The terms of our law, which are not empty sounds,
74    III,  IX    |              discourses of religion, law, and morality, as they are
75    III,  X     |     perplexed the material truths of law and divinity; brought confusion,
76    III,  X     |             understands a text, or a law, that he reads, till he
77    III,  XI    |           another as is according to law, hath not a clear and distinct
78    III,  XI    |         clear and distinct idea what law is, which makes a part of
79    III,  XI    |           say that man is subject to law, we mean nothing by man
80    III,  XI    |         would no doubt be subject to law, and in that sense be a
81     IV,  III   |             may conclude do act by a law set them; but yet by a law
82     IV,  III   |           law set them; but yet by a law that we know not: whereby,
83     IV,  VIII  |            propositions as these: “a law is a law,” and “obligation
84     IV,  VIII  |   propositions as these: “a law is a law,” and “obligation is obligation”; “
85     IV,  XVI   |            of a rule observed in the law of England; which is, That