good; therefore they are not of
that sort of things which the law of nature requireth; for this law goeth
no higher than to teach men that there is a God, and that this God is to
be worshipped, the knowledge of which things is not a good exceeding the
proportion of nature: for it was found in the Gentiles themselves, who
knew no other spiritual and supernatural good than that which was
proportioned to nature. Let me now conclude this reason with Scalliger's
words, _Neque enim quae supra naturae leges sunt, ex naturae legibus
judicanda censeo_.(1155)

_Sect._ 7. 2. As the ceremonies, by their sacred, spiritual, and mystical
significations, direct us unto a supernatural good, so they are thought to
guide us unto the same by a way which nature's light could never discover
unto men. But, in the law of nature, as we are directed unto no other good
than such as is proportioned to nature, so are we guided unto the same
_natura duce_,(1156) that is to say, by such common notions as God hath
imprinted in the nature of all men. Now, I suppose our opposites will not
unwillingly reckon their sacred significant ceremonies among those things
of the Spirit of God which a natural man cannot receive, because they are
spiritually decerned, 1 Cor. ii. 14. What then have they to do with the
law of nature? If it be said, that they necessarily follow upon those
first principles and conclusions which a natural man receiveth, I answer,
This shall never be proved. They will say, perhaps, that nature teacheth
us to use certain rites in the worship of God, to observe set times for
his worship, also to kneel down in reverence of God whom we worship.
_Ans._ Be it so: but how make they up a necessary connection betwixt
certain rites and significant ceremonies of human institution; betwixt set
times, and some more days than one of seven; betwixt kneeling in the
worship of God _in genere_, and kneeling at the sacrament _in specie_,
unless they say that nature requireth us to kneel in every act of worship,
and never to worship God without kneeling on our knees?

_Sect._ 8. 3. _Jus naturae_ is _ubique idem_, as Rosinus:(1157) it is
approved _communi omnium gentium judicio atque assensu_, as the Professors
of Leyden:(1158) it is one and the same among all nations, in respect of
the principles of it, as Aquinas(1159) and Zanchius:(1160) the law of
nature _fixa est cordibus nostris_, as Stella:(1161) yea, it is "so
written in our hearts that iniquity itsel