f cannot blot it out," as
Augustine saith;(1162) and we learn from the Apostle, that the law of
nature is manifest in the Gentiles, for God hath showed it unto them, Rom.
i. 19; therefore there is none ignorant, saith Pareus.(1163) Whatsoever,
then, the law of nature requireth, it doth clearly and necessarily follow
upon those principles which are written in every man's conscience, unless
we set up new divinity, and either say that the principles of the law of
nature are not written in every man's conscience, or else that they may be
at some time abolished and rased out of the consciences of men; which were
to leave men without a witness. Nay, saith Augustine,(1164) the heaven and
the earth, and all that is in them, on every side, cease not to bid all
men love God, that they be made inexcusable. Now if all the principles of
the law of nature be firmly and clearly written in every man's conscience,
and cannot but be known to every man who has the use of natural judgment
and reason, it followeth, that they who will prove or warrant anything by
the law of nature, must only take their premises from every man's
conscience, and say, as the Apostle saith, "Judge in yourselves," &c.,
"doth not even nature itself teach you," &c., 1 Cor. xi. 13, 14; as if the
Apostle said, This principle of nature is fixed in all your hearts, that
men should affect honesty and comeliness. Go to reason in yourselves, from
the judgment of nature, whether it follow not, upon this principle, that a
man should not wear long hair, forasmuch as his wearing of long hair is
repugnant to the principle of nature. _Committit ipsis judicium_, saith
Pareus; _ipsos testes, imo judices appellat_,(1165) so that, if the
ceremonies be warranted unto us by the law of nature, the judgment must be
committed to every man's conscience, and so should every man be convinced
in himself, by such a principle of nature, from which the ceremonies have
a necessary and manifest deduction. Yet we attest the Searcher of all
hearts, that we have never been convinced in ourselves, by such a
principle of nature, no, not after diligent search and inquiry.

_Sect._ 9. 4. Let our opposites say to us, once for all, upon what precept
of the law of nature do they ground the ceremonies; for I have before
opened up all sorts of things which the law of nature requireth of man as
he is _ens_; and as he is _animal_ belongeth not to our purpose. As for
that which it requireth of him as he is a cre