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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A67269	A sermon preached at Great St. Marie's church in Cambridge before the Right Honourable the Lord Chief-Justice Holt, at the assizes held there, August 1, 1693 / by Tho. Walker ...	Walker, Thomas, 1658 or 9-1716.	1693 (1693)	Wing W416; ESTC R4995	18,815	38

mala nulla alia nisi naturali normâ dividere possumus Cicero de Legib. l. 1o. if the nature of Good and Evil depended upon the capricious humours and was to be determined by the fallible Constitutions of human Lawgivers it would then be in their Power to reverse the Face of things when they pleas'd and so in time they might quite abolish the Notions and Sentiments which are implanted in Mens minds concerning Right and Wrong Virtue and Vice and the same Actions might pass for Just and Pious at one time which would be look'd upon to be highly Impious and Unjust at another But this can never be for if all the World should conspire together to make it unlawfull to worship God and to honour our Parents to live Soberly Righteously and Godly and should consent to establish a Law to make it lawfull to commit Theft Murder or Adultery c. it would be null and void of it self without being formally repeal'd by another and the same breath that pronounc'd it would only deliver it up to the sport and derision of the winds and they who endeavour to establish iniquity by such a Law would only render themselves guilty before God by keeping it and would pull down upon their own Heads that Curse denounc'd against them by the Prophet Isaiah c. 5. v. 20 Wo unto them that call evil good and good evil that put darkness for light and light for darkness that put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter 'T is the peculiar Excellence of God that he changeth not and therefore he will never refix those Laws in any time which he had decreed and establish'd before the World began for being infinitely Wise and Just and Good he could not enact any Law which was either foolish unjust or wicked because his Knowledge which is stinted by no other bounds than those of Infinity and Eternity cannot be deceiv'd and his Justice which is as essential to him as his very Being would not have suffer'd it and his Goodness which overspreads the whole Creation could have took no delight and satisfaction in imposing false notions upon his Creatures or in the reflection and contemplation upon an Irregular Action in himself of which he is not capable No he saw all things that He a Gen. 1.31 had made and behold they were very Good as well in a Moral as in a Natural respect so that there was nothing left for the wit of Man to perform towards the Perfection of his own Nature o● the accomplishment of his own Happiness Peace and Security even in this World God having made such ample Provision for him and plac'd him in such a state of Perfection that he might not only have been Happy himself but also have deriv'd those Endowments with which he was blest and that Felicity which he enjoy'd upon his Posterity too if he had not swerv'd and deviated from the Law of his Creation in first willfully violating that of his Maker For Men therefore to talk of the state of Nature's being a state of War wherein all things were Lawfull and all things Common wherein Men were obliged by no Rules and Laws of Justice and Equity but that they might without controul follow the swing and bent of their own Vitious Inclinations and Irregular Appetites till by consent they tied themselves up to be govern'd by certain Laws is to reflect unworthily upon the Wisdom and Goodness of God as if Men could do better for themselves than either he could or would do for them Alas the utmost we can do cannot restore our lapsed Nature to its Primitive Integrity or re-engrave the defaced Characters of Wisdom and Innocence which were once imprinted on the minds of our first Parents by the Finger of their all Wise Creator For God created man upright but they have sought out many inventions Eccles 7.24 This then being premis'd and granted that the nature of Good and Evil is invariable and that they are not the Fortuitous result and offspring of Arbitrary Power and Will but that the one is built upon the solid Foundation of Everlasting Truth and is conformable to the Will of God and that the other is a deviation from the dictates of Right Reason which is a Ray that proceeds from the Fountain of Light and an aberration from the Divine Law I shall now come to a more strict discussion of the Words of my Text. Only be pleas'd to afford your Patience whilst I make this Reflection upon what I have said that I am sorry we live in such an Age wherein the Prime Rules and Fundamental Principles of Religion and Morality are call'd in question wherein Men affect to be witty at the expence of their own Happiness and Salvation by endeavouring to vindicate their Enormous Crimes with a shew of Reason which God knows is often as corrupt and vitiated as their Morals and therefore it cannot but with Regret and Sorrow be reflected upon that there should be any Occasion for Discourses of this Nature Some alas in this Degenerate Age wherein downright Atheism is dress'd up in the more plausible Colours of Deism are apt to flatter and deceive themselves with the vain and empty Hopes of being accounted Men of extraordinary Parts and piercing Judgments if they can but manage two or three weak and trifling Arguments against all Reveal'd Religion and so having shook off the Yoke that so sorely gall'd them they disdain to be under the restraint and government of any other Law than what their Wild Fancies and Corrupt Imaginations dictate to them and so giving way to their Heacstrong Passions and Craving Appetites they indulge and gratifie their unruly Lusts in all the instances of Impiety Lewdness and Sensuality But as sure as there is a God that governs the World so sure hath he reveal'd his Will to Mankind by his onely Son Jesus Christ who is the Wisdom of the Father and the express Image of his Person in whom are hid all the Treasures of Wisdom and Knowledge such Knowledge as will make us wise unto Salvation in respect of which all other worldly Wisdom is but accounted Folly before God To offer at the proof of this Point would be forreign to my Purpose and therefore I return to the Handling the Words of my Text which in the several Translations of the vulgar Latin Greek and Arabick are so variously rendered that they differ as much among themselves as they do from the Original Hebrew to which our Translation especially taking in the Marginal Reading of more abundant comes nearer than any of those before mentioned and therefore I shall stick to that and take the Words as they fairly lye before us without offending some of your Ears with the uncouth and uncommon Sounds of Greek and Hebrew Words which I could not avoid if I should attempt to make a Critical Disquisition about the different Interpretation of the Original Having therefore in what I have already said fixt the Notions of Good