everence and to worship. 2. The law of nature teacheth
man to hold fast friendship and amity with his neighbours, forasmuch as he
is _animal sociale. Violare alterum_, saith Cicero, _naturae legae
prohibemur_.(1149) For the law of nature biddeth us do to others as we
would have others to do unto us, Luke vi. 31. And from these precepts it
followeth, that we should not offend other men; that we should keep
promises; stand to bargains; give to every man his own, &c. 3. As touching
a man's self, the law of nature teacheth him that he should not live as a
reasonless creature, but that all his actions should be such as may be
congruous and beseeming for a creature endued with reason: Whereupon it
followeth, that he should live honestly and virtuously, that he should
observe order and decency in all his actions, &c. Hence the Apostle saith,
that nature itself teacheth that it is a shame for a man to have long
hair, 1 Cor. xi. 14, because it is repugnant to that decency and
comeliness which the law of nature requireth. For, among other
differences(1150) which nature hath put betwixt men and women, this is
one, that it hath given to women thicker and longer hair than to men, that
it might be as a veil, to adorn and cover them. The reason whereof nature
hath hid in the complexion of a woman, which is more humid than the
complexion of a man; so that, if a man should take him to this womanish
ornament, he should but against nature transform himself (in so far) into
a woman.

_Sect._ 6. These things being permitted, I will add four reasons to prove
that neither sacred significant ceremonies in general, nor kneeling,
holidays, &c., in particular, can be warranted unto us by the law of
nature. 1. The law of nature cannot direct us unto a supernatural end, as
is acknowledged not only by our divines,(1151) but by Aquinas also.(1152)
It only teacheth us to seek and to do _bonum, velut finem naturae_,(1153)
such a good as is an end proportioned to nature. All these precepts of the
law of nature which we have spoken of could never lead men to a
supernatural good. It is only the divine law,(1154) revealed from God,
which informeth the minds of men with such notions as are _supra naturam_,
and which may guide them _ad finem supernaturalem_. But all sacred
significant ceremonies which, by their holy and spiritual significations,
express to us some mysteries of grace, and of the kingdom of God, must be
thought to direct us unto a supernatural