68 . TheSaintS . _ _ / \ this bee good, jull: and equall, or that: whether we l 1 · muli: facrifice to Chrift, or to the_Gods ofthe Gen- \ ) tiles.Neitherdoe they ~allthisinroquefiion,whe- 1 \ ther God be to be worfhtpped and loved; but,whe..- · I ther they ought to love and woriliip this God _whiCh .the Chrifdans ferve, or the many Gods of . 1 the heathen. There is no:man that fiickes at, or ·: \ doubts ofthar, whether it be lawfull to doe againA: \ the rule of jufl:ice; but all doe ·not equally efl:eerne \ and weigh this ; whether particular!y to doe this or that, bee againft the rule ofjufl:ice andprefcript of nature. There is none that is ignorant, that it is a– gainfi juftice , that either himfelfe or his·forme · fhould be flaine; but wherher for fuch a.caufe, for · example; when they did off~r their foones and– .daughters to devills, or,._that the chafHtie of any ! might not be violated; here many knew not, thatI itwas againfi rhe law written in the. heart, tokill l either himfelfeorothers:. \ In theparticular, the law·of nature was wofully ( . ' ob~nr~:d in the Gentiles, Rom-. I. who changed the glorie of the incorruptible God into the fimilimde .of an oxe that eateth hay, &c. and.did change the \ namrall ufe into that which was againft: nature:> &c . But yet according to thofe mofr common prin~ ciples of all things, it was no! utterly extinCt') fith it is faid of the fame Apoftle, that they knew the . jufrice ofGod; al'Jd his,,eternall power and Gqd– bead, fo th~c-rhey are inexcufable. . In the underfianding power of the foule, there I are two naturaii, and origi'nally iriplanted habits. I o ·ne
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