A69536:26
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.
I. In the first most comprehensive and most famous sense, MORALITY, as distinguished from mere Naturality or Physics, doth signify the Relation of the Manners or Acts of an Intelligent free Agent to the Governing Will and Law of God: And so Actus morals and Actus humani are used in the same sense; and all Morality is distinguished into Moral Good and Moral Evil, Virtue and Vice.
I. In the first most comprehensive and most famous sense, MORALITY, as distinguished from meer Naturality or Physicks, doth signifie the Relation of the Manners or Acts of an Intelligent free Agent to the Governing Will and Law of God: And so Actus morales and Actus humani are used in the same sense; and all Morality is distinguished into Moral Good and Moral Evil, Virtue and Vice.
II. Some have used MORALITY in a narrower sense, unfitly, for so much of Man's duty as is revealed by the mere Law of Nature, and as is of common obligation to lapsed Mankind: And so it comprehendeth the relicts of the Law of Innocent Nature (to love God and obey him, &c.) and the additional Law of Lapsed Nature, (to Repent, and use all possible means for our recovery, and thankfully improve the Mercies which we receive.) And ⟨p. 8⟩thus it is distinguished from Duty known by supernatural Revelation, and especially the Mysteries of Redemption by Jesus Christ.
II. Some have used MORALITY in a narrower sense, unfitly, for so much of Man's duty as is revealed by the meer Law of Nature, and as is of common obligation to lapsed Mankind: And so it comprehendeth the relicts of the Law of Innocent Nature (to love God and obey him, &c.) and the additional Law of Lapsed Nature, (to Repent, and use all possible means for our recovery, and thankfully improve the Mercies which we receive.) And ⟨p. 8⟩thus it is distinguished from Duty known by supernatural Revelation, and especially the Mysteries of Redemption by Jesus Christ.