24/31 And I think very few will take a proposition which amounts to no more than this, viz. "That God is pleased with the doing of what he himself commands," for an innate moral principle written on the minds of all men, (however true and certain it may be,) since it teaches so little. Whosoever does so will have reason to think hundreds of propositions innate principles; since there are many which have as good a title as this to be received for such, which nobody yet ever put into that rank of innate principles. Scarce possible that God should engrave principles in words of uncertain meaning. "Men must repent of their sins") much more instructive, till what those actions are that are meant by sins be set down. |