346 The nature of the Obedience all Mankind having finned againft the Commands of it, and fo by Guilt, with the Impotency unto Obedience which en- fued thereon, defeated themfelves of any Intereft in its Pro- mile, arid pofíibilitytbf attaining any fuch intereft, they cannot have any Benefit by it. But as unto its power to ob- lige -all mankind unto Obedience, andthe unchangeable Truth of its Promifes and Threatnings, it abideth the fame as it was from the Beginning. 21y, Take away this Law, and there is left no flandard of Righteoufnef unto mankind, no certain boundaries of Good and Evil, but thofe pillars whereon God hath fixed the Earth are left to move and flote up and down like the Ifle of Delos in the Sea. Some fay, the Rule of Good and Evil un- to men is not this Law in its original conftitution, but the Light of Nature, and the Diktates of Reafon. If they mean that Light which was primogenial and concreated with our natures, and thofe Diktates of Right and Wrong which Rea - fon originally fuggtfted and approved, they only fáy in other words, that this Law is All the unalterable Rule of Obedience unto all mankind. But if they intend the remaining Light of Nature that continues in every individual in this depraved ftate thereof, and that under fuch additional Depravations as Traditions,. Ouftoms, Prejudices, and Lufts of all forts, have affixed unto the molt, there is nothing more irrational, and it is that which is charged with no leis inconvenience' than that it leaves no certain Boundaries of Good and Evil. That which is Good unto one, will on this Ground be in its own nature -evil unto another; and lò on the contrary , ánth all the Idolaters that ever were in the World might on this pretence be excufed: ÿ, Confluence bears wi.tnefs hereunto. There is no Good nor Evil required or forbidden by this Law, that upon the Difcovery of it. any man in the World can p rfwade or bribe his Confluence not to comply with it in J'ixlgcnent; as unto
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