A69536:156
The judgment of non-conformists about the difference between grace and morality
London : s.n., 1676
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Morality as Regulated is subjected in the Minds and Actions of the Creature; specially in the WILL, and in our Actions, as VOLUNTARY; and so even the Laws of Men, as those Men are God's Subjects, and their Laws are Actions good or evil, as Regulated by God's Superior Laws, are the Subjects of the Morality now in question.
Morality as Regulated is subjected in the Minds and Actions of the Creature; specially in the WILL, and in our Actions, as VOLUNTARY; and so even the Laws of Men, as those Men are God's Subjects, and their Laws are Actions good or evil, as Regulated by God's Superiour Laws, are the Subjects of the Morality now in question.
Prop. 2. This Morality in Man's Will and Actions is nothing else, formally, but their Relation of Conformity or Disconformity to God's Law, as their Rule; (and subordinately to subordinate Rules;) and materially to the End and O[…]jects.
Prop. 2. This Morality in Man's Will and Actions is nothing else, formally, but their Relation of Conformity or Disconformity to God's Law, as their Rule; (and subordinately to subordinate Rules;) and materially to the End and O〈…〉jects.
Prop. 3. How far this Moral Relation is immediately founded in a Physical Relation, which is before it in order of Nature, viz. in the said Relation of the Will and Action ⟨p. 47⟩to the End and Object as such, antecedently to the Relation to the commanding or forbidding Law, we would willingly open, were it not lest we seem, with Men that love not much distinction, to justify or excuse them that censure us as guilty of excess herein; and we may do what is now necessary to be done without it.