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Writers, who attempt, by any fallacious sophistry, to withdraw our British Soldiers (22) from their obedience to the eternal Law, or from that allegiance which they indispensably owe to the empire of Reason and Conscience, may justly be said to treat them more like Brutes than Men!
But as all men of Common Sense are enabled, by that hereditary Knowledge beforementioned, (which has been common to all ranks of people ever since the fall of Man,) to distinguish Good from Evil (23); so they are equally enabled (and indeed entitled) thereby to judge (24) concerning the Legality of
