But the Law of Nature, he declares, being before the civil laws, and containing the ground of their obligation, can never be superseded by these.

Practically, however, the difference between him and Hobbes comes to very little; he recognizes no kind of earthly check upon the action of the civil power.
VI .-- With reference to Religion, he professes to abstain entirely from theological questions, and does abstain from mixing up the doctrines of Revelation.

But he attaches a distinctly divine authority to his moral rules, and supplements earthly by supernatural sanctions.
RALPH CUDWORTH.

[1617-88.] Cudworth's _Treatise concerning Eternal and Immutable Morality_, did not appear until 1731, more than forty years after his death.

Having in a former work ('Intellectual system of the Universe') contended against the 'Atheistical Fate' of Epicurus and others, he here attacks the 'Theologick Fate' (the arbitrarily omnipotent Deity) of Hobbes, charging him with reviving exploded opinions of Protagoras and the ancient Greeks, that take away the essential and eternal discrimination of moral good and evil, of just and unjust.
After piling up, out of the store of his classical and scholastic erudition, a great mass of testimony regarding all who had ever founded distinctions of Right and Wrong upon mere arbitrary disposition, whether of God or the State of men in general, he shadows forth his own view.