The truly blessed man

2. The Duties required in the moral Law are all of them rational. The Moral Duties required are either Natural, or Positive. The f•rmer are called Natural, because the light of nature teacheth them, and reason will convince Conscience that they are right, so as either to commend or accuse them, according as they entertain them, Rom. 2.14, 15. The Positive are such as do add a particular restriction to the law of nature, or are arbitrary commands built upon it: and these are accommodated to the benefit of man, and carry their reason in them; such as Gods limiting the Sabbath to a Seventh day, &c. Mere Ethnics have made excellent discourses on many moral Duties, from the reason they saw in them.

2. The Duties required in the moral Law are all of them rational. The Moral Duties required are either Natural, or Positive. The f•rmer are called Natural, because the light of nature teacheth them, and reason will convince Conscience that they are right, so as either to commend or accuse them, according as they entertain them, Rom. 2.14, 15. The Positive are such as do add a particular restriction to the law of nature, or are arbitrary commands built upon it: and these are accommodated to the benefit of man, and carry their reason in them; such as Gods limiting the Sabbath to a Seventh day, &c. Meer Ethnicks have made excellent discourses on many moral Duties, from the reason they saw in them.

3. And there is the highest reason for Duties purely Evangelical. God hath manifested his Sovereign Grace in the Gospel, in that he will treat fallen man in a New Covenant, but the great commands of Faith and Repentance therein required, are most rational. That God will accept of man in this way, is wonderful condescension: but that in order to peace and salvation, they turn from their sins to God, and place their whole trust and reliance on Christ, is so fair and convictive, that sinners who have refused it, shall have nothing to plead for themselves in the day of accounts,