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What is said of Desire, may be applyed to any other passion which, affecting any thing contrary to these rules, is a sin; now what he adde's [untill they know a Law] is not universally material, for Ignorantia juris non excusat, such as he are so farre from knowing, that they will have contradictoriam ignorantiam, they will deny, and oppose the very bond of Nature, and teach what is crosse to it; not knowledge in such cases is a sin, and the mother of such a sin as leade's to Perdition, when men hide their eyes, and will not see the Sun, but draw vailes betwixt them and it [which, saith he, untill Lawes be made, can∣not be known] but there is no man made without a law to guide him. [Nor, saith he, can any Law be made untill they have agreed upon the person that shall make it] As men, who are borne in a Commonwealth, doe not choose their lawmaker, but submit to him, whose government they were under; so every man is borne a Citizen of the world, and he must submit to that great Governour and Law-maker of the world, God, and that law he hath made for him to doe; so that, whether a man agree upon a Law-maker, or no, there is a law-maker, and a Law, un∣der which he is borne, and to which he ought to submit. Pag. 63. he undertake's to satisfie another question thus.