[ 566] Religion, not Reason, is the square of good actions.
A Carpenter when he is working, doth see by his eye, when he applyeth the square to the wood,* 1.1 whether it be straight or not; but yet his eye (without the which he cannot see) is not the Iudge to try whether the tree be straight or not, but onely the square is the Iudge: So Reason in man (without the which he could not judge) is not the square to try what is right or wrong in ordine ad Deum, in order to salva∣tion, but Religion, the word of God it self, is t••e onely Rule and square; For instance, Reason cannot consider how faith justifieth a man, or whether works be an effect of faith or not, but Reason can conclude, ex concessis, of things granted; If faith be the cause, and works the effect, then they must necessarily go together, and Reason can go no higher.