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Show , () f the ttd~t~ncement Of learning i · iJfVidalurA ntg4nt: _So faid Dtndttmis the 111Ji4n vnto .Aiexanders Meffcngers : That he had heard fome. , . what of Pythttglrtts ,and fotne other of the wife m-en · . of Gr~ci~,and·that-he held them for excellent Men: ~ut that th.ey had a fault, which was that they had · : in too ~reatreucrence and v.ener.ationathingthey called La we and Manners: So it mufi be confcffed · that a great :part'of the ·Lawe· Morallis of that per. fee}ion, \vhereunto'the light of N aturecannota ... · fpire: how then_-is it~ that man is faid~ to haue by the · · hght and law eo£ Nature fome N ot1ons, and con. · . ccits of vertue and yice, iufiice & wrong, good and -euiU? Thus, becaufe the light of ,Nature is vfed in · t\VO feuerallfenfes: Eflie one,that Which fpringeth :'from ·Reafo.n~·S-enfe, In d uClion, Argument,accor. ,ding to theJa-wesofheauen and earth : The other ~;th~t wh.ic~ is. i~printed- v~on the fpirit of Man by ' · . ,an ln\vard lnfhnCl,accordJng to the Ia we of confci-- ence, ·\vhicl!is a fpal:kleofth~~uritie of his firfi E. ;·~are: In which Jarer (enfe oneJy,he is·patticipantof ·lome li~ht,and difcerning:touching the perfection of the·Morall Jawe:but ho\vc:' fufficient to check the ·v icc-,but n0r-to i11forme the dutie. So th~n the docrrineofReligion, as wellMorallasMifiicall, is not · to beattained ... 31 ·but by infp.iration and reuelation ·from God. · . , . · .. The vfe n~t-withftanaillg of Rea ron in fpiriruaH . thtng~,an?·~he latitudc·rh~reofis very great and ge-, ~ . ·nerall:fo.r t.t 1s not for ~othtng, that the A pofile cal~ · ;Jeth Rel~.gton r·our r.e4fMA!Jieferuitl·'.. ~ f ... Cod, iAfo~ . · .much • |