The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural…

They are like Children that cry for what they love,¹ and will not be restrained by telling them that its unwholesome: Reason signifieth nothing with them, as long as Sense and Appetite gainsay it: They are angry with all that crosseth their Appetites, though it be to save their Lives: The Sense is become the predominant power in them, and Reason is dethroned, and hath left its power: Therefore Gods Law ⟨p. 178⟩is unacceptable and hateful to these brutish people; because it is quite against their inclination, and that which the Flesh doth call their Interest and Good.

They are like Children that cry for what they love,¹ and will not be restrained by telling them that its unwholsom: Reason signifieth nothing with them, as long as Sense and Appetite gainsay it: They are angry with all that crosseth their Appetites, though it be to save their Lives: The Sense is become the predominant power in them, and Reason is dethroned, and hath left its power: Therefore Gods Law ⟨p. 178⟩is unacceptable and hatefull to these bruitish people; because it is quite against their inclination, and that which the Flesh doth call their Interest and Good.

1. 1Aristippus being asked, Quid esset admirandum in vita? answered, Vir probus & moderatus? quoniam etsi inter multos improbos agat, non tamen pervertitur. Stob.

§. 13. Therefore they love not those who press them to the Obedience of this Law, which is so ungrateful to them; and who condemn their sin by the holiness of their lives; and that awaken their guilty Consciences by the serious mention of the Retributions of the life to come.