Of Other Laws of Nature (1651) [ Concepts ]
… knew it supernaturally; Breach of Faith cannot be called a Precept of Reason, or Nature. Covenants Not Discharged By The Vice Of The Person To Whom Made Others, that allow for a Law of Nature, the keeping of Faith, do neverthelesse make … of promise. This Justice of the Manners, is that which is meant, where Justice is called a Vertue; and Injustice a Vice. But the Justice of Actions denominates men, not Just, but Guiltlesse; and the Injustice of the same, (which is also … Modesty, Equity, Mercy, & the rest of the Laws of Nature, are good; that is to say, Morall Vertues; and their contrarie Vices, Evill. Now the science of Vertue and Vice, is Morall Philosophie; and therfore the true Doctrine of the Lawes of …
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