. Of the lawes of ecclesiastical politie : eight books. A LEARNED SER MON OF THE NA- TVRE OF Abac. 2. minde fwelleth and is not right in him :But the Iufl by his Faith Jhall liut^. He nature of man being much more delightedtobeeledthendrawne, doth many times ftub-bornelyrefiftauthorise, when to perfwafion iteafily yeeldeth. Whereupon the wifeft Law-makers haue endeuoured alwayes , that feeme raoft reasonable which theywould haue moft inuiolably kept, A Law Am-ply commanding or forbidding, is but dead incomparifbn of that which exprefleth the reafonj wherefore it
. Of the lawes of ecclesiastical politie : eight books. A LEARNED SER MON OF THE NA- TVRE OF Abac. 2. minde fwelleth and is not right in him :But the Iufl by his Faith Jhall liut^. He nature of man being much more delightedtobeeledthendrawne, doth many times ftub-bornelyrefiftauthorise, when to perfwafion iteafily yeeldeth. Whereupon the wifeft Law-makers haue endeuoured alwayes , that feeme raoft reasonable which theywould haue moft inuiolably kept, A Law Am-ply commanding or forbidding, is but dead incomparifbn of that which exprefleth the reafonj wherefore it doth the one or the other. Andfurely,euen in the Lawes of God, although thatHee hath giuen comrnandement,bee in it felfe a reafbn fufficient to exacl all o-bedience at the hands of men : yet a forcible inducement it is to obey withgreater alacritieand cheerefulnefTe of minde, when wee fee plainely that no-thing is impofed more then we muft needs yeeld vnto , except wee will be vn-*reafortable. In a word, whatfoeuer wee be taught, bee it Precept for dife&ionof our manners, or Article for inft
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