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Rh external and extraordinary Revelation; else, how shall God judge the World? how shall they to whom the Word of God never came, be acquitted or condemned at the Great Day? For where there is no Law, there can neither be Obedience nor Transgression.

It is indeed an unspeakable Advantage which we, who are Christians, do enjoy, both in respect of the more clear and certain Knowledge of our Duty in all the Branches of it, and likewise in regard of the powerful Motives and Assistance which our blessed Saviour in his Gospel offers to us, to enable and encourage us to the discharge of our Duty. But yet it is nevertheless very useful for us to consider the primary and natural Obligation to Piety and Virtue, which we commonly call the Law of Nature; this being every whit as much the Law of God, Rh