The Doctrine of Justification by Faith

2ly, Take away this Law, and there is left no standard of Righteousness unto mankind, no certain boundaries of Good and Evil, but those pillars whereon God hath fixed the Earth are left to move and float up and down like the Isle of Delos in the Sea. Some say, the Rule of Good and Evil unto men is not this Law in its original constitution, but the Light of Nature, and the Dictates of Reason. If they mean that Light which was primogenial and concreated with our natures, and those Dictates of Right and Wrong which Reason originally suggested and approved, they only say in other words, that this Law is still the unalterable Rule of Obedience unto all mankind. But if they intend the remaining Light of Nature that continues in every individual in this depraved state thereof, and that under such additional Depravations as Traditions, Customs, Prejudices, and Lusts of all sorts, have affixed unto the most, there is nothing more irrational, and it is that which is charged with no less inconvenience than that it leaves no certain Boundaries of Good and Evil. That which is Good unto one, will on this Ground be in its own nature evil unto another, and so on the contrary; and all the Idolaters that ever were in the World might on this pretence be excused.

2ly, Take away this Law, and there is left no standard of Righteousness unto mankind, no certain boundaries of Good and Evil, but those pillars whereon God hath fixed the Earth are left to move and flote up and down like the Isle of Delos in the Sea. Some say, the Rule of Good and Evil unto men is not this Law in its original constitution, but the Light of Nature, and the Dictates of Reason. If they mean that Light which was primogenial and concreated with our natures, and those Dictates of Right and Wrong which Reason originally suggested and approved, they only say in other words, that this Law is still the unalterable Rule of Obedience unto all mankind. But if they intend the remaining Light of Nature that continues in every individual in this depraved state thereof, and that under such additional Depravations as Traditions, Customs, Prejudices, and Lusts of all sorts, have affixed unto the most, there is nothing more irrational, and it is that which is charged with no less inconvenience than that it leaves no certain Boundaries of Good and Evil. That which is Good unto one, will on this Ground be in its own nature evil unto another, and so on the contrary; and all the Idolaters that ever were in the World might on this pretence be excused.