Book,  Chapter

 1   Read         |       xxvii, concerning the third rule which men refer their actions
 2   Read         |           vice” according to this rule of Reputation is all I have
 3   Read         |     nature, which ought to be the rule of virtue and vice, were
 4   Read         |          standing and unalterable rule by which they ought to judge
 5      I,  I     |         will be true to their own rule, and have assent at first
 6      I,  I     |        particulars into a general rule, must be innate. When yet
 7      I,  II    |         to instance any one moral rule which can pretend to so
 8      I,  II    |        there cannot any one moral rule be proposed whereof a man
 9      I,  II    |         should that most unshaken rule of morality and foundation
10      I,  II    |  certainly a great and undeniable rule in morality. But yet, if
11      I,  II    |      actions convince us that the rule of virtue is not their internal
12      I,  II    |            But the breach of this rule cannot be a greater vice,
13      I,  II    |       others, that it is no moral rule, nor obligatory, would be
14      I,  II    |          and establishment of the rule be preserved.~8. Conscience
15      I,  II    |         proof of any innate moral rule. To which I answer, that
16      I,  II    |          morality to be named, or rule of virtue to be thought
17      I,  II    |           is no argument that the rule is not known, because it
18      I,  II    | professedly disown and cast off a rule which they could not in
19      I,  II    |      satisfy us that no practical rule which is anywhere universally,
20      I,  II    |     generally allowed breach of a rule, proof that it is not innate.
21      I,  II    |         innate. The breaking of a rule, say you, is no argument
22      I,  II    |        say that this is an innate rule, what do you mean? Either
23      I,  II    |           life the breach of this rule, and consequently that it
24      I,  II    |           that whatever practical rule is in any place generally
25      I,  II    | confidently and serenely, break a rule which they could not but
26      I,  II    |           be but a very uncertain rule of human practice, and serve
27      I,  II    |          to God’s will, or to the rule prescribed by God—which
28      I,  II    |         and so be as far from any rule or principle of his actions
29      I,  II    |          being all one to have no rule, and one that will warp
30      I,  II    |        God in his mind, to be the rule and touchstone of all other
31     II,  I     |       make his own hypothesis the rule of nature, will find few
32     II,  XXVII |        the same, by the foregoing rule: and whilst they exist united
33     II,  XXVII |         different modes, the same rule holds. Whereby it will appear,
34     II,  XXVIII|       voluntary actions have to a rule to which they are referred,
35     II,  XXVIII|      utterly in vain to suppose a rule set to the free actions
36     II,  XXVIII|        intelligent being to set a rule to the actions of another,
37     II,  XXVIII|         punish deviation from his rule, by some good and evil,
38     II,  XXVIII|  revelation. That God has given a rule whereby men should govern
39     II,  XXVIII|       Secondly, the civil law—the rule set by the commonwealth
40     II,  XXVIII|           belong to it—is another rule to which men refer their
41     II,  XXVIII|  correspond with the unchangeable rule of right and wrong, which
42     II,  XXVIII|     nature, which ought to be the rule of virtue and vice, were
43     II,  XXVIII|          these rules. Whether the rule to which, as to a touchstone,
44     II,  XXVIII|      whether, I say, we take that rule from the fashion of the
45     II,  XXVIII|      agrees or disagrees with the rule; and so hath a notion of
46     II,  XXVIII|  conformity of any action to that rule: and therefore is often
47     II,  XXVIII|      called moral rectitude. This rule being nothing but a collection
48     II,  XXVIII|         invisible Lawgiver for my rule, then, as I supposed the
49     II,  XXVIII|          it to the civil law, the rule made by the legislative
50     II,  XXVIII|          whencesoever we take the rule of moral actions; or by
51     II,  XXVIII|         or disagreement with some rule that makes them to be regular
52     II,  XXVIII|          they are compared with a rule, and thereupon denominated,
53     II,  XXVIII|         the reference it has to a rule. By which confusion of these
54     II,  XXVIII|      action, disagreeing with the rule of right. And yet the private
55     II,  XXVIII|          relation to that supreme rule, it is no sin or transgression,
56     II,  XXVIII|          is the same, whether the rule any action is compared to
57     II,  XXVIII|     comparing the action with the rule, whether the rule be true
58     II,  XXVIII|        with the rule, whether the rule be true or false. For if
59     II,  XXVIII|           inquiry. For though the rule be erroneous, and I mistaken
60     II,  XXVIII|      Though, measuring by a wrong rule, I shall thereby be brought
61     II,  XXVIII|        that which is not the true rule: yet I am not mistaken in
62     II,  XXVIII|         that action bears to that rule I compare it to, which is
63    III,  III   |         what gave occasion to the rule, that a definition must
64    III,  III   |      necessity there is of such a rule, or advantage in the strict
65    III,  III   |          those who have made this rule have done ill, that they
66    III,  IV    |     definition, made according to rule, those who hear it have
67    III,  IX    |          uniting them without any rule or pattern, it cannot be
68    III,  IX    |          have scarce any standing rule to regulate themselves and
69    III,  IX    |          common use, that is, the rule of propriety may be supposed
70    III,  IX    |     different ideas. Besides, the rule and measure of propriety
71    III,  IX    |         simple modes. By the same rule, the names of simple modes
72    III,  XI    |           he makes it stand. This rule will not seem altogether
73    III,  XI    |        being but a very uncertain rule, which reduces itself at
74     IV,  I     |          without any such general rule. This then is the first
75     IV,  V     |          truth of nothing by this rule, but of the visionary words
76     IV,  VIII  |        lay down for an infallible rule, That, wherever the distinct
77     IV,  XII   |          instance, or the general rule; and which it is that gives
78     IV,  XII   |           the conduct of this one rule than by taking up principles,
79     IV,  XVI   |         amiss to take notice of a rule observed in the law of England;
80     IV,  XVI   |   beginning, come, by an inverted rule of probability, to pass
81     IV,  XVI   |    discover, analogy is the great rule of probability. [Secondly],
82     IV,  XVI   |         that are beneath man, the rule of analogy may make it probable,
83     IV,  XVII  |      reducing our thoughts to any rule of syllogism. And therefore
84     IV,  XVIII |        but would prove a very ill rule for men to choose their
85     IV,  XX    |         but the French, take this rule with one translation to