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Jonathan Edwards
''Nature'' and ''God'' are intricately connected, as early philosophers made clear:
''Nature'' and ''God'' are intricately connected, as early philosophers made clear:
{{cquote|Natural right is the dictate of right reason, shewing the moral turpitude, or moral necessity, of any act from its agreement or disagreement with a rational nature, and consequently that such an act is either forbidden or commanded by God, the author of nature.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.constitution.org/gro/djbp_101.htm|title=De jure belli ac pacis (On the Law of War and Peace)|date=1625|author=[[Hugo Grotius]]}}</ref> - [[Hugo Grotius]], On the Law of War and Peace}}
{{cquote|Natural right is the dictate of right reason, shewing the moral turpitude, or moral necessity, of any act from its agreement or disagreement with a rational nature, and consequently that such an act is either forbidden or commanded by God, the author of nature.<ref>{{cite book|url=http://www.constitution.org/gro/djbp_101.htm|title=De jure belli ac pacis (On the Law of War and Peace)|date=1625|author=[[Hugo Grotius]]}}</ref> - [[Hugo Grotius]], On the Law of War and Peace}}
{{cquote|Where the name, ''nature'', is allowed without dispute, no more is meant than an established method and order of events, settled and limited by divine wisdom.
If any should object to this, that if the want of original righteousness be thus according to an established course of ''nature'', then why are not principles of holiness, when restored by divine ''grace'', also communicated to ''posterity''; I answer, The divine law and establishments of the author of ''nature'', are precisely settled by him as he pleaseth, and limited by his wisdom.<ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Z7fRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA219|title=The Works of Jonathan Edwards|date=1839|author=[[Jonathan Edwards]]}}</ref> - [[Jonathan Edwards]], The Doctrine of Original Sin; or the Native State and Character of Man unfolded.}}
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==See Also==