"God is in our hearts by his laws; he rules in us by his substitute, our conscience; God sits there and gives us laws; and as God said unto Moses, 'I have made thee a God to Pharaoh,' that is, to give him laws, and to minister in the execution of those laws, and to inflict angry sentences upon him, so hath God done to us."
In the beginning of Sanderson's second lecture, De Obligatione Conscientiæ, he says:
"Hine illud ejusdem Menandri. Βροτοῖς ἅπασιν ἡ συνείδησις Θεὸς; Mortalibus sum cuique Conscientia Deus est, Quo nimirum sensu dixit Dominus se constituisse Mosen Deum Pharaoni; quod seis Pharaoni voluntatem Dei subinde inculcaret, ad cum faciendam Pharaonem instigaret, non obsequentem contentibus plagis insectaretur; eodem fere sensu dici potest, eundem quoque constituisse in Deum unicuique hominum singularium propriam Conscientiam."
Sanderson's Lectures were delivered at Oxford in 1647, but not published till 1660. The Dedication to Robert Boyle is dated November, 1659. The Ductor Dubitantium is dedicated to Charles II. after the Restoration, but has a preface dated October, 1659. It is not likely, therefore, that, Taylor borrowed from the printed work of Sanderson. Perhaps the quotations and illustrations which they have in common were borrowed from some older common source, where they occur associated as they do in these two writers. I should be glad to have any such source pointed out.
W. W.
Cambridge.
Minor Queries.
220. "Vox verè Anglorum."—"Sacro-Sancta Regum Majestas."—Translator of Horrebow's "Iceland."
—Perhaps some of your readers may be able to tell me the names of the writers of the two following works, which were published anonymously.
1. Vox verè Anglorum: or England's loud Cry for their King. 4to. 1659. Pp. 15. In this the place where it was published or printed is not given.