Defence of the Religion of Nature And the Christian Revelation Against the De
Defence of the Religion of Nature And the Christian Revelation Against the De
Simon Browne
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This law need- ed no amendment. It was a perfedl rule of life as far as intended ; and much too f erf eel for mankind, in their corrupted ftate, exadlly to obferve. And this made a remedial conflitution ft, and indeed 7ieceffary to man's obtaining complete happinefs. Not, becaufe the original law was imperfe^, but bccaufe ?nan^s impcrfedion rendered exatl obedience to it impoflible, and not a man upon earth lives v^/ithout 7nanifoId deviations from it. And every thing added to ic, is not in der...ogation from the law's perfection, but in kind condefcenfion to human infir- mity and imperfcdlion. And it is much more he- coming imperfc(ft creatures, to be thankful for fuch mercy, than from a proud conceit of their own un- derfcanding and abilities, make the />(fr/d'i7/V« of the law not neceffarily univerfal. 3 ^7 law of nature, which ^^^ tamot fulfil, an argu- ment againft it. What he lays of the adding certaia obfervances x\ot founded in reafon^ has been confide- red in the foiegoin^/^JJio;-^.
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