Thesis 146.
[ 146] It is a truth as immovable as the pillars of Heaven, That God hath given to all men universally a rule of life to conduct them to their end: Now if the whole Decalogue be not it, what shall? The Gospel is the rule of our faith, but not of our spirituall life, which flows from faith, Gal. 2.20. Ioh. 5.24. The law therefore is the rule of our life; now if nine of these be a compleat rule without a tenth, exclude that one, and then who sees not an open gap made for all the rest to goe out at also? For where wil any man stop, if once this principle be laid, viz. That the whole law is not the rule of life? May not Papists blot out the second also, as some of Cassanders followers have done all but two; and as the Antinomians at this day do all? and have they not a good ground laid for it, who may hence safely say that the Decalogue is not a rule of life for all? Mr. Primrose, that he might keep himselfe from a broken head here, sends us for salve to the light of nature and the testimony of tbe Gospel, both which (saith he) maintain and confirm the morality of all the other Commandements, except this one of the Sabbath. But as it shall appeare that the Law of the Sabbath hath confirmation from both (if this direction was sufficient and good) so it may be in the mean time considered why the Gentiles who were universall Idola∣ters, and therefore blotted out the light of nature (as Mr. Primrose confesseth) against the second Commandment, might not as wel blot out much of that light of nature about the Sabbath also; and then how shall the light of nature be any sufficient discovery unto us of that which is morall and of that which is not?