Since it has pleased God to endue us with some capacity of reason, to the end we may not, like brutes, be servilely subject and enslaved to the laws common to both, but that we should by judgment and a voluntary liberty apply ourselves to them, we ought, indeed, something to yield to the simple authority of nature, but not suffer ourselves to be tyrannically hurried away and transported by her;
Jainkoak gogoetatzeko ahalmen zerbait eman nahi izan digunez geroz lege arruntetara, ihiziak bezala, apalki azpiratuak izan ez gaitezen amoreagatik, baina adimenez eta borondatezko libertatez lot gakizkion, eman behar diogu apur bat naturaren manamendu hutsari, baina ez geure burua utzi harengana eramatera;