19. And as to the second, we must 1. Consider the Antecedent part of Gods Government, which is Legislation and then (hereafter) the consequent part; which is 1. Judgment, 2. Execution. And Gods Legislation is 1. By making our Natures such as compared with objects, Duty shall result from this Nature so related: 2. Or else by Precept or Revelation from himself, besides our Natures. 1. The Law of Nature is fundamental and radical in our foresaid Relations to God themselves, in which it is made our natural duty, 1. To submit our selves wholly to God, and his disposal, as his own: 2. To obey his commands: 3. And to receive his mercies, and thankfully to return them, and to love him. But though ⟨p. 379⟩(as Gods essential principles, and his foresaid Relations, are admirably conjunct in their operations ad extra; so) our Relative obligations are conjunct, yet are they so far distinguishable, that we may say, that these which conjunctly make our Moral duty, yet are not all the results of our Relation to a Governor, as such; but the second only; and therefore that only is to be called the Radical Law in the strict sense, the other two being the Moral results of our Rectitude. The duty of subjection and obedience in general, arising from our Natures related to our Creator, is the radical governing Law of God in us. But yet the same submission, and gratitude, and love, which are primarily our duty from their proper foundations, are secondarily made also the matter of our subjective duty, because they are also commanded of God. 2. The particular Laws of Nature are 1. Of our particular duties to God; or of Piety: 2. Or of our duties to our selves and others: 1. Acts of Justice, 2. And of Charity. These Laws of Nature are 1. Unalterable; and that is, where the nature of our persons, and of the objects, which are the foundations of them are unalterable, or still the same: 2. Or mutable, when the Nature of the things which are its foundation, is mutable. As it is the immutable Law of immutable nature, that we love God as God, and that we do all the good we can, &c. because the foundation of it is immutable: But e. g. the Law against Incest was mutable in nature: For nature bound Adams children to marry each other; and nature bindeth us since (ordinarily) to the contrary: 2. The revealed Law to Adam was superinduced. The parts of Gods Law must also here be considered. 1.
19. And as to the second, we must 1. Consider the Antecedent part of Gods Government, which is Legislation and then (herafter) the consequent part; which is 1. Judgment, 2. Execution. And Gods Legislation is 1. By making our Natures such as compared with objects, Duty shall result from this Nature so related: 2. Or else by Precept or Revelation from himself, besides our Natures. 1. The Law of Nature is fundamental and radical in our foresaid Relations to God themselves, in which it is made our natural duty, 1. To submit our selves wholly to God, and his disposal, as his own: 2. To obey his commands: 3. And to receive his mercies, and thankfully to return them, and to love him. But though ⟨p. 379⟩(as Gods essential principles, and his foresaid Relations, are admirably conjunct in their operations ad extra; so) our Relative obligations are conjunct, yet are they so far distinguishable, that we may say, that these which conjunctly make our Moral duty, yet are not all the results of our Relation to a Governour, as such; but the second only; and therefore that only is to be called the Radical Law in the strict sense, the other two being the Moral results of our Rectitude. The duty of subjection and obedience in general, arising from our Natures related to our Creator, is the radical governing Law of God in us. But yet the same submission, and gratitude, and love, which are primarily our duty from their proper foundations, are secondarily made also the matter of our subjective duty, because they are also commanded of God. 2. The particular Laws of Nature are 1. Of our particular duties to God; or of Piety: 2. Or of our duties to our selves and others: 1. Acts of Justice, 2. And of Charity. These Laws of Nature are 1. Ʋnalterable; and that is, where the nature of our persons, and of the objects, which are the foundations of them are unalterable, or still the same: 2. Or mutable, when the Nature of the things which are its foundation, is mutable. As it is the immutable Law of immutable nature, that we love God as God, and that we do all the good we can, &c. because the foundation of it is immutable: But e. g. the Law against Incest was mutable in nature: For nature bound Adams children to marry each other; and nature bindeth us since (ordinarily) to the contrary: 2. The revealed Law to Adam was superinduced. The parts of Gods Law must also here be considered. 1.
