4. Instance in natural religion.
He also that hath the idea of an intelligent, but frail and weak being, made by and
depending on another, who is eternal, omnipotent, perfectly wise and good, will as certainly know that man is to
honour, fear, and obey God, as that the sun shines when he sees it. For if he hath but the ideas of two such beings
in his mind, and will turn his thoughts that way, and consider them, he will as certainly find that the inferior,
finite, and dependent is under an obligation to obey the supreme and infinite, as he is certain to find that three,
four, and seven are less than fifteen; if he will consider and compute those numbers: nor can he be surer in a clear
morning that the sun is risen; if he will but open his eyes and turn them that way. But yet these truths, being ever
so certain, ever so clear, he may be ignorant of either, or all of them, who will never take the pains to employ his
faculties, as he should, to inform himself about them.