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Show [ Xxii [ ] xxiii ] " flye agreement of men," by which they This knowledge of Good and Evil was have been ratified and confirmed in all ages. The Baron feems to have overlooked the divine attriénte (14.). though they were information we have received from Scripture, that men inherit a divine attriénz‘e of its being engrafted in human nature. from their parents, I mean that knowledge gfgaod and evil which they took upon themfelves contrary to the exprefi cani- mand qf God, and thereby unhappily en- It muf't therefore appear, that the agreement or nflenz‘ of mankind to the moral and eternal Laws of God (which the Baton and other Civilians commonly call tailed bin and Death on all their pofteri- " the Laws q/‘Nafztre'j may very fairly difcovered, even by the Gentiles, to he a unacquainted, probably, with the occafion ty; for that divine knowledge neceflarily be prefumed and admitted as a natural engages and includes our agreement or Ly:- effect of the human underfltanding, whenever any of the {aid Laws are mentioned ; for, all perfons, who have any reflection, jem‘ to the " zlye Laws (3f Nature," whe- ther we obey them or not, and thereby mufl: renders us anfieeraéle for our imperfect conduit in this world, and confequently guilty before God ! And from hence ariibs the necellity ofa redemption to re- lieve mankind from that unhappy effeét ot the Original Sin; for, as "tlzeflrengtb of " 'Szn 25 tlJean, "(13)fothe guiltof every criminal aftion is wz'z‘bju/liee imbuted to us, (l4) Cicero calls this natural knowledge of Good and Evil, La-w. " Lex" (lays he in his firlt Book De Legibus) " ell mtia/imzma, infita in naznrfl, quasju" lie! ea qua: facienda, funt, pi-c/biéetque contraria; eaa'em " ratio cum elt in hominis mente confirmata et confec- " ta Le: eft." And in his third Book De Ofliciis, where he is {peaking again of natural Reafon, he calls it a Divine Larw.-" lpfa nature: ratio, quae ell La: 11':" vim; et humana :" And elfewhere he more parti- becaufe we have wilfully offended againft cularly declares it to be aDi-L'ine Azlrz'éure.-" Ream, eta this natural light or Law in our Heart: by which we ought to have known how; " nunzine Drorum traéta rarity." And he mentions this attrz'énte again in his fecoml Book " De Nature: Dea" rum," where he {peaks of {malaria or " the 2‘0 rg‘n'e z‘lje EVIL and :boofi the Goon. " (hair: (mea' and rg'eriim if Evil," as a univerfal This (13) " The {ling ofDeath is Sin ; and the fi‘rmg/l' of " Sin it {/12 Law." I Cor. XV. 56. Law, (amnion to Gar/1172.4, man. " Sequitur at early"; fit in " his (Diis) qure in gel/ere [mm/rig, rtirio, eaa'em wen/ax " utrobiguc fit, endemque sz; qua: ell mfz'i pnerep/io " fra-vique (layman. Ex quo intelligitur, prudentiam ." quoque, ct nientc‘m :1 Dirt ad homiucs, pervenill‘e,"_ Cir |