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Show a - " aAemma i ‘ThefecondBookeopibepir(tpart 2 - ' ‘cameras: =$Cuara.§.6 creatures,orthings created ; whether neteflary orc ontingent,natur 1 ak hu. mane. Forthe Law\crernallsunneththroughall the wrierialls atc dl 1erefore it isthe lawalfo of things whicharefim ple, naturallandinaftimates 1b 23 Pfal.ras. ees a Henceit,is;. that-all things.created are commnsindedto prnife God their cnet atgt and DireGour : .as,Pxailebim allyo bis Augels i praifeline Sunwe qed Al owe, ab brights Parte; heanens of beanensjonhe hath eftatdifhed themfontncr dnd ewerHe bath made au a which(bakwok palfe -Reaifeye the Lordfrom the earth ye Dracans and all Deepes © ége and haile,now and Yapouxs,floreie wineleswhich execute bis word : mountaines and hils , fruit fullereestandall Cedars : Beasts, and all Cattell; or. "Now as the reafonable Creatyres are ‘by thisetethall law Goin by the glory ayd'felicity propofedvnto themsbeatirude be-4, ing Both the attractitie; and theend)dfoall othier fathtall things and creatur es haue in thenifeltes; ‘and initheir own\natures, an obedience formall to It, without any proper intention, knownréatife; orend propofed. For beafts are led by fenfe, and matin inftin@ «things withoutlife bytheir createdforme,or fortiafl appetites, asthat whichis heauyto fall downward: things light to mount vpward, &c. ‘andfire to,hearesxhatleier isappofed. This kinde of wotking the Ariftotelians afcribé'to commennature /0thers to,fate ; a difference yfed.intermes only ; it being'ho other than Gods general prouidence: 'forasit istraly {aid of God, that he is omniafuper omnia: Lo areallthings whichappeare in themfelues thence deriued: there-vnderfabie&ted : then ce-fromby his eterdialllaw and providence direéted, cuen-from the greateftto the leaft of his crea-$y tures, in heauenandin earth. La1.delibarb. CapG. The Schoolemematévery curious and ample in the confideration ofthefe lawes:and in difcourfe of the profit}: and of thé matter. and obieé ofthe eternall law. Butasthe profitismanifet inthe good ofall creatures,whovhaue thence-from,citherxeafon, (efile, Vegetation, or appetition,to condu@them: fois the obiectand matter ofthe law, the wholecreature.. Fos according to; dugufline....Lex eteruy Ch, quainflun sess vt omnis int ordinatifsima3, Thelaw ctersall is that; wherby it is infty that all thingsfhoald be difpofta inthe beftiandgoodlieft.order. Laftly, ‘itis difputed, whetherthe eternal] law-be immutab! esyeaor Tohn 18.30. Pfal.69,22; folutionisythat it changeth not: for which S.\duguftinev{eth a finficient no: But thete argumentin his 39 firlt Booke ofFree-will, the fixth Chapter. Forthedlaw of Mofes which hadatime pte fixed, was eternally by God ordained to lag vntill thetime ofthe Pedagogieof Gods people; otintroduction to: Chrift fhould bee expired ; whichtime of expiration fome thinke-our Sauiournotedto be come,wh en onthe Crofle he laid, Con/fummatumes But Trathenthinke thefe words ofour Sauiour to haueno other fignification, thanthatnow the prophecie of their giving him Vinegar to drink was fulfilled. For. fo Saint Johnes pounds it, when hee faith'a.23.-That Chrift feeing all ( other) things to befulfilled; Vt Suminaretur Seraptura;Thatthe Scripture in thigalfe might be fulfilledaid, thin: though I.deny not; butat thefame timealfo the date oftthe Law was expired; to wit; ofthe Jaw ceremoniall.and of fo much ofthe judicial, as appertained-péculiarly to the Tewes,and js agreeth:notwith the law ofthe new Teftament and GofpelofChri ft. For the immutable law of God} though preferibing things mutable, thethings prefcribed, change according.to this isnot therfore changed imit felfe but etérnall ordinance, of which the#™ iOf Salomon, And: being one{hse can doe all things, and remaining in herfelfere ntw* eth all eV Ofthe. Law of Neture, Fhelaw of Nature as itistaken in generally Tfinde Angin Epad ‘no definition among they Sch m cha oolr emea n'::e Hil,89'@ ix onl A / aia8 ee it ts\confi onfide derered d i Nman iti itis called the imp Evang.iob. i re/ sio refs fi n ofof #i vl ion Pradl.ag. thRiimprefsio.di h nini e veeof lumi the ete ni law Pipd rna in the reaf eiuf l crea 115, itia onab ae Lex ture natw ie ! part a * . icip eida atio is r a chimeds.tit,x Chines the wsta ne PArticipatio legitLeos <terne epin rutipitioh rall law tob onalelii creatura. rips va ‘ e thefame which nature bat Ha chquad Natura omn h tanght all lining creatures iaaninaalia dotnit sand : 1h hee afterward'addeth:,. Dbmneni Mab generis "KA DropriAsan » {edtw gine ona nin i m antf inalia m gue' i -ter r4 mar 1#9782 commune eff ; : igu ; ‘ enafeu 4 ntur , am The Com mB toa Lining treatapes lay of Nature és uO! proper to man alone, but thefame45iani "a > H well tobivds > ® tothefe which the Land and Sea proantBit pt Cuar.a. §.5, of the Hiftorie ofthe World. Butthis definition is not general, but of the naturall Lawin thingsoflife. The Lawof nature in generall ,I rake to be that difpofit ion,infting, and formall quae lity, which Godin his eternal] prouidence hath given and ry creature, animate,and inanimate. ‘And asit is diainum imprinted in the nature ofeuelumen in Men, inlightning our formall reafons; {0 is it more than fenfein Beafts;and more than vegetation in plants. For it is not fenfe alone in Beafts, which teacheth ther at orinftrudion, to flic from the enemies of theirlines firft fight, and without experience : feeing that Bulles and Horfes appeare vatothefenfe more fearefull and terrible, than the leaft kinde of Dogges; and yer the Hareand Deerefeedeth bythe onc.and flieth from the other,yea,though by themne- ‘ouer feene before, and that as fooneas they fall from their Dammes, Neithos.is ir fenfe which hath taught other Beafts to prouide for Winter, Birdsto build their ne ts, high or low, according to the tempeftuous or quict feafons. :. or the Birds of szdiz to make their nefts on the {malleft twigges which hang over Rivers,and not on apyother part ofthe tree, or cl{e-where : to fauetheir eggesand youag ones from the Monkies, and other Beafts, whofe weight fuch atwigge will not bea d which would feareto fallinto the Water. Theinftances inthiskindeare exceeding many isit out of the vegetable o1'growing nature ofplant which may bee giuen. Neither Palnitto; will not beare anyfruite except the male s, that fome trees,as the female ofthe growi that Law, whichtheinfinite and vafearchable wifdome n fight... Burthis they doe by of Godhad inall eternity pro6 vided for them,andfor euery nature created. In manthis Law is double >-cortupt, and incortupt ; corrupt, wherethe reafon of man hath paflions,andaffections brutall : and incorrupt,wheremadeit felfe fubic&, anda Vaftall to anewnature; whichal{o, as is aforefaid,is akinde time and cuftome hath bred in men of Law, Foritwas not:by.the Law ofNatureincortupr, which Saint Auguftin e calleththe Law of reafon, but by a nature S#pr blinded and corrupted.that the Germansdid anciencl tions were by Law confitained to become Idolater yallowoftheft: and tharother Na- - s; that_by:the Lawes of Lycurgus it Was permitted to men tov{e oneanothers Wife,an dto the Woman to: choofe them o-.7! thers befides their Husbands;to beget themw ith childe: which law in thofe parts hath lafted long,andis not forgotten to this day. 278 30-The Scythiazs,and the people ofboth Jzdies,h old it lawfull to bury withthem the bef Acofta beloued wiues:as alfo they haue manyother cuftomes remembred by G.Walentia,againkt natureand right reafon, . And [know not from what authorityiris, that chefe Lawes fome menauow to be naturall:exceptit be of thiscorru pt hature,as/amon g comefaithleffe among thefaithleffe sto prouide others)to pay guile with guile: to befor our {clues by another mans deftruion; that iniuryis not doneto him that is willing:to deftroy thofe whom we feare, and the like. For taking the definition ofnatur all Lawes, either out of Saint. Aggu/liz e or N Aquinas, (the one calling itthe impre{sion.of diuine light;the other,the dilate or fentence */"* ofprattiquereafon) the fame can teach vs, or incline ys to no otherthing, thanto.the ex.+, 42 ercifeof Lultice and vprightnefle : and norto offerorperforme any thing toward others, #¢ 07 faue that which we wouldbe content fhould be Forfuchis the Law ofnature to the minde,a offered or performed toward our{elues, cording to Dauid thewethvs good,tharis,the s the cycis to the body; and thar whichacob{eruation of rhofe things which leade ys pr. thereby to ourlaft end; whicli is erernall life: though of themfelues norfufficient with. out faith and grace. Now, that whichis truly and properly rhelaw . of Nature, where the corruption is not» taken forthe Law, is, as aforefaid, che impreffion of Gods divine light in men, anda parUcipation of the Lawincreated and eternall.. For Without any Law written, the right teaton and vaderftanding »which Godhath giuen vs, are abilitics within ourdelues, fuftis Secientto give vs knowledge of the goodand cuill, which by ourgratitude to, God. anddi‘tribution of rightro men,or bythecontrary, we prepare and urchafe for our {elucs.For when the Gentiles({eith Saint Paulwhich bane not the Law,doe Dees thofeshings contai-Romz.34] wens the Lavy :they hauing not the Law, are 4 Law unto themfelyes. Now, to. loue God by whomwe are andto doethe famé right vntoall men, which we defire fhould be done of the purelt reafon;in whofe higheft Futrets:the quiet of confcience th made her refting place,and habitation. /z 40Gt altifsina rations gies habitat. There. Gentiles faith Saint Paul) whith{oen the effeds Of the Lawwrittenia their hearts, Rom. .1 a a leva 4, afciemces for «wibnelfe ofthofe effects : and the reprobate S18 an effet Aa their thoughts to AcHefe. And |