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Show Cbapgz. OFA CHRISTIAN COMMON-WEALTH. CHAP. XXXII. 0ftbe @rinciplerq‘CrinisriA N POLIT iqu E 3. Have derived the Rights of Soveraigne '1'be Word of t , ‘I Power, and the duty of Subjects hitherto, God delivered fromthe Principles of Nature onely; fuch '5} WWW." i as Experience has found true , or Confent:f"1;":fmCP;¢: (concerning the ufe of words )‘has made f0; fifan Polithat is to fay, from the nature ofMen, known "9""to us by Experience,and from Definitions(of fuch words as are Effentiall to all Politicall reafoning) univerfally agreed on. But in that I am next to handle,which is the Nature and Rights ofa C H R 1 s r 1 A N COM M o N-VV a A L T H , whereof there dependeth much upon Supernatui'all Revelations ofthe Will ofGodgthe ground of my Difcourfe mun be, not only the Naturall Word of God, but alfo the Propheti- call. NL‘Vt'rtl‘ichiTCQVC are not to renounce our Senfes, and Experience; m ,‘4 my mnOI‘UlIJI which is the undoubted Word of God )our naturall Reafon. mall Reajon Forthev are the talents which he hath put into our hands to negotiate, ‘0 be 75mm" tillthe coming again ofour blefikd Saviour; and therefore n0t to be "‘1' foldedupinthe Napkin of an Implicite FaithJ but emplo ed in the piiithiit‘mr‘julhce, PeaCe, and true Religion. For thoug 1 there be man} things in Gods Word above Reafon; thatitis to fay, which cannot by naturull reafon be either demonflrated, or confuted; yet then-is nothing contrary toit-7 but when it feemeth fo, the fault is either in our unskilfull Interpretation, or erroneous Ratiocina- tron. Therefore) when any thing therein written is too hard for our ex- amination , wee are bidden to captivate our underfianding to the Words-,and not to labour in fitting out a Philofophicall truth by Lo- gickpf fuch myfieries as are not comprehenfible, nor fall under any rule of naturall fcience.For it is with the myfieries of our Religion,as \Vith wholfome pills for the fiCk , which fwallowed whole3 have the \"<rtllfc{to cure, but chewed, are for the molt part caft up again with-out e ca. C c But |