A treatise concerning eternal and immutable morality . d 3 BOOK 3 8 Concerning Eternal and. BOOK IL C HAP. I. j^lX^I| ° w the Demonftrative StrengthB^r^J of owr Caufe lying plainly in^;)¥ this, That it is not poffible that llfil Ili! any ^1^ fhould Be without aNature, and the Natures or Ef-fences of all things being Immutable, there-fore upon Suppofuion that there is any thingReally Juft or Unjuft, a Due or unlawful,there muft of neceffity be fomethingyi bothNaturally and Immutably, which no Law,Decree, Will, nor Cuftom can alter. Therehave not wanted fome among the Old Philo-sophers, that
A treatise concerning eternal and immutable morality . d 3 BOOK 3 8 Concerning Eternal and. BOOK IL C HAP. I. j^lX^I| ° w the Demonftrative StrengthB^r^J of owr Caufe lying plainly in^;)¥ this, That it is not poffible that llfil Ili! any ^1^ fhould Be without aNature, and the Natures or Ef-fences of all things being Immutable, there-fore upon Suppofuion that there is any thingReally Juft or Unjuft, a Due or unlawful,there muft of neceffity be fomethingyi bothNaturally and Immutably, which no Law,Decree, Will, nor Cuftom can alter. Therehave not wanted fome among the Old Philo-sophers, that rather than they would ac-knowledge any thing Immutably Juft or Un-juft, would notflick to (hake the very Foun-dations of all things, and to deny that therewas any Immutable Nature or Eflence of a-ay thing, i id by Confequence any abfolute m or / Certainty Immutable Morality. 39 Certainty of Truth or Knowledge ; main-taining this ftrange Paradox, that Both allBeing and Knowledge was Phantaflical andRelative only, and therefore that Nothingwas Good or Evil, Jujl or Unjujl, True orFalf
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