“It is not easy by the light of nature to determine more than that there is a God. The sun may be that God. The moon may be that God. To frame a right conception or notion of the First Being, wherein all other things had their being, is not possible by the light of nature alone. Indeed, if a man consider there is a will of the Supreme Cause, it is an hard thing for him by the light of nature to conceive how there can be any sin committed. And therefore the magistrate cannot easily determine what sins are against the light of nature, and what not.” – Sir John Wildman, “Whitehall Debates” (in A. S. P. Woodhouse, Puritanism & Liberty)
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