1)ityr -hold the Truth in unrighteou/nef . 119 rreafure firft of fpcculative,then of praétical Truth. But betides them, there is in the third place, another thing ifíuing from both thefe, which (hoots it felfe into the will and affections. And that is it which the Schoole-men calls yntere fis, that is, a certaine Inch_ nation to that which is good, and a relu Lance to the contrary. There is in naturall men not only a light to know that this is good, or not good, and a Con - Icience to diEtate; this you mutt doe,or not doe; but there is even an Inclination in the will and affe1ions, whereby men are provoked to doe good, and to op- pole the Evill.And therefore the propofirion is true, that naturall men have fotrae truthes, becaufe they have this Inclination remaining,even in the worft of them. As the aire though it be darke in the night, yet there is a little light(thogh it be very little)by which we can difcerne fòmthing. So that thus tar men may go,to know the Truths of G o n,to have a pradicall knowledge of them, to have an inclination.to that which is good, and a diflike to that which is evill. Secondly, whence comes this knowledge : It comes from I E SUS CHRIST, the fecond Perfon in the Trinity,Iohn 1.9. lohn was not the Light, but . He was the true Light, wbicb enlightneth every man that comes into the world: It is He that infufeslight in. to the heart of every man, as Hee is the true good, that makes good; and as it is true fire that begets fire, to it is true light that enlightens. John was not that Light, neither is any Miniller of the Gofp,211, for they enlighten only by way of propounding the ob- jeC ` t,but -C H R t s T opens the underftanding, and puts light within, therefore He is the true Light. 14 Now SER. V. s. The Author of it. john z. 9.
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