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What causes the difficulty is this; the Equitable is Just, but

not the Just which is in accordance with written law, being in

fact a correction of that kind of Just. And the account of this

is, that every law is necessarily universal while there are some

things which it is not possible to speak of rightly in any

universal or general statement. Where then there is a necessity

for general statement, while a general statement cannot apply

rightly to all cases, the law takes the generality of cases,

being fully aware of the error thus involved; and rightly too

notwithstanding, because the fault is not in the law, or in the

framer of the law, but is inherent in the nature of the thing,

because the matter of all action is necessarily such.