Seventh-day Puritan
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Without a fixed and highe source of moral auctoritee, the very conceypt of right andwrong falleth into subiective mennes opinions. If moralitee were but a craft of man’s making, it wolde lacke any universall and bindyng lawe. Dedes myghte be deemed good or wicked only byerrant customes, not by any objective veritee. Yet, every soule doth feel within hym that some dede—lyk murther or crueltee—be wrong in a wise that transcendeth the differencesof countrees. This comon sense of right and wrong, found in all tymes and places, may not be cast aside as happynesse or worldly devising. To deny a higher moral lawe is as foolish asdenying the very worlde which our feet doth tread, though both are beyond full measure of man’s reckoning. He that casteth aside a devine moralitee unwittyngly bindeth hymself to a laweof right and wrong which, ere he knoweth, is rooted in a HIGHER AUCTORITEE. The truth of objective moralitee is as certain as the erthe beneath our feet—neither may be reduced tothe whims of man’s desyre or nature’s instyncte. If we cast away the beleve in a just and eternall source of right, then are we left withoute reason to condemne deeds of evil, whichotherwise defye the lawes of nature and human decency. In the lack of such devine lawe, moralitee would be as shiftyng and unstable as the wind, and mankind would be adrift without a guide. Onelythe hand of a LAWGIVER from above may give sense to the moral order we feel within, and withoute this foundation, we are cast into confusion andcontradiction.