12. It is a perfect general rule for the regulating of those things, which it doth not command or forbid in particular. As that all be done wisely, to edification, in charity, peace, concord, season, order, &c.
13. It giveth to magistrates, pastors, parents, and other superiors, all that power by which they are authorized to oblige us, under God, to any undetermined particulars.
14. It is the perfect rule of Christ's judging, rewarding, and punishing at last, according to which he will proceed.
15. It is the only law that is made by primitive power.
16. And the only law that is made by infallible wisdom.
17. And the only law which is faultless, and hath nothing in it that will do the subject any harm.
18. And the only law which is from absolute power, the rule of all other laws, and from which there is finally no appeal.[378]
Thus far the holy Scripture with the law of nature is our perfect rule. But not in any of the following respects.
1. It is no particular revelation or perfect rule of natural sciences, as physics, metaphysics, &c.
2. It is no rule for the arts, for medicine, music, arithmetic, geometry, astronomy, grammar, rhetoric, logic; nor for the mechanics, as navigation, architecture; and all the trades and occupations of men; no, not husbandry by which we have our food.