De tropologia, id est, moralitate.
The Source of Moral Reading
Tropology concerns things rather than words, rooted in natural justice from which moral discipline arises.
As for tropology, I won't say anything beyond what was already stated, except that its meaning seems to pertain more to things than to words. For in that natural justice lies the source from which the discipline of our character — that is, positive justice — is born.
Contemplation and Creation's Testimony
By contemplating God's works we learn our duty, for every nature reveals God, teaches humanity, and yields reason.
By contemplating what God has done, we come to recognize what we ourselves ought to do. Every nature speaks of God; every nature teaches humanity; every nature brings forth reason, and nothing in the whole created order is barren.
Read the original Latin
De tropologia nihil aliud in praesenti dicam quam quod supra dictum est, excepto quod ad eam magis rerum quam vocum significatio pertinere videtur. in illa enim naturalis iustitia est, ex qua disciplina morum nostrorum, id est, positiva iustitia nascitur. contemplando quid fecerit Deus, quid nobis faciendum sit agnoscimus. omnis natura Deum loquitur, omnis natura hominem docet, omnis natura rationem parit, et nihil in universitate infecundum est.
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