(43S. guilt of fin unto damnation by their difobedience, they mule have fomewhat of greater worth then the fouls ofthole men to encourage them to make thole Laws.For had there been no fuck Laws, there would have been none of that tranfgreffion, and confequently no damnation for it. g. 7. Yea 7. It is fufficient to prove that nothing but Come Good may be the Matter of a Law, in that they mflid penale ties , and fo great penalties upon the breakers ofthem, There mull be a proportion between the Precept and the Sanction. The Commination or penal part of the Sanction , depriveth si:en of force Good : and therefore it fhould command, as great a good at !call as it depriveth menof : Efpecially when the pe nalty is to be call out ofthe Churchand fervice ofGod , this is not to be done for nothing, 8. ú_eí1. But is it not the Law that i.i the Rule of Moral good? andconfequently nothing Good or Evill, but as Conform or Di(conform to the Law ? And if fo, then nothing but things indifferent fere mull be commanded. For all things are Morally indiffe rent, tillthe Law take away the Indif ferency, by its precepts or pro- bibitions. 9..Aniw. You mulldiflinguifh between Divine and Hui mane Laws,and Primary and fubfervient Laws,and between the feversl forts of Good before mentioned. And fo I anfwer, r. TheLaw is not the Rule of Natural Good , though it be of Moral. And therefore that which is commanded,is fuppofed to have force Natural Good oraptitude to be a Means ofGood, that fo it may be the fit matter of a command. z. Gods Laws are the Primary Laws,which are the firfl Rule ofMoral Good. Mens Laws are but fubfervient , to procure thedue execution of Gods Laws. And therefore in the greatefl cafes the Indiffe- rency is takenoffbefore by the Law of God and mens laws are to fecond Gods Laws, and rather to drive men on to that which already is their duty, then to make them new duties : Though Newduties alto they may make in fubferviency to, and for the performanceof the Old. But theremullbe a Phjh- cal goodnefs, which is the Aptitude of the matter to attain the End as a means,before that matter can jufily receive the imprefs ofa command, and be made a Duty. Gods own Law of Na. tore is Antecedent to his Pofitive Laws : and in fupernatural Kkk z Pofi-
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