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3. Some do bind it by reason in every man: but this is very uncertain, and one mans reason is contrary to another's, and one mans conscience is larger then another's; even as it is with measures in divers countries, though they have the fame name, as a bushel, &c. yet they are different in quantity, one is larger then another.

3. Some doe bind it by reason in every man: but this is very uncertaine, and one mans reason is contrary to anothers, and one mans conscience is larger then anothers; even as it is with measures in divers countries, though they have the fame name, as a bushell, &c. yet they are different in quantity, one is larger then another.

Lastly, Others bound it by the will of God, declared and manifested first to Noah in seven precepts, and afterwards to Moses in the ten Commandments: but these extend the law of Nature not only to first principles, but conclusions also deduced from thence.

Lastly, Others bound it by the will of God, declared and manifested first to Noah in seven precepts, and afterwards to Moses in the ten Commandements: but these extend the law of Nature not onely to first principles, but conclusions also deduced from thence.

5. The obligation of it, when the law of Nature doth bind: And ¹that is from God the author of it, God only is under no law. Every believer, though justified by Christ, is under the Moral Law of Moses, as also the law of Nature: but now this law of Nature doth not so properly bind, as it's mans reason or conscience, as that it is the Vicegerent of God, or a command from ⟨p. 63⟩