Excerpt from The Works of John Witherspoon, D. D., Sometime Minister of the Gospel at Paisley, and Late President of Princeton College, in New Jersey, Vol. 7: Containing Essays, Sermons, &C. On Important Subjects; Intended to Illustrate and Establish the Doctrine of Salvation by Grace, and to Point Out Its Influence on Holiness of Life; Together With His Lectures on Moral Philosophy Eloquence and Divinity It feems a point agreed upon, that the principles of duty and obligation muff be drawn from the na ture of man. That is to fay, if we can difcover how his Maker formed him, or for what he in tended him, that certainly is what he ought to be. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.