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Show . .. it .. ' ('Jf the tJiluancemen(oj learning ' . But contrariwife in the gouernors towards the go; ue1·ncd~·a.ll ~hJpgs ough~ as far as the frail tie- of Man permiueth,to be m.anifefi,&r.euealed. F.orfo rt is.ex .. .prclred jn.,be Scriptures t~lching.the gouetnment . of God,. that this Gloqe which feen1eth to vs a dark· apd I11Jdy bi:>dy isi_jhevitwofGod, a~ ChriltaJJ; Et in conjpe'tl~ftdirs tan qua mare vitreufif!Ji/e ohYijl41/o. So vnto,P rinces ~.rt~ States~ and fpec ially to war des wife Senats arid Counce!$, the natures and difpofi· · ti.on5.pfthe p~ople, th.eirconditions, and neccffi •. ti~s;th.cir faOliqqs an<.lcorobiHations,th eir animofi .. ri~s and dlfcoritents ought fo be in regard oft he w-. ~ ri~tie. oftheir Intelligences, the \Vifedorne of rheiv obferuations~nd t·~re height of their fiation, where they keepe. Gcntin.ell; in great part cleare and tran· fparent ·:; ~ wltcrcforc, CQnfid.eringrhat Iwrite roa· kingtha~ is a maifterofrhis Scic~ce,.an.d is fo \Vela[ .. fified, ·I thinke it de~~nu~ paffepnerthis pan Jn(t .. . Jece,ois willing to obtaine the ct-nificat.cr,lwhich one· · of the and em PhiloCopQers afpired vn to,w ho being fiJent, when oth-ers contended to make dernonfira~ri9n oftheir abiHries by fpeech, delired it mought i · b~ cerrHied for his part, th4t_t~ere ~as one th11t knewe · how~f~Jholdhis pe~fce. , , · . N:otwitbJlan.ding for the morepubliq»ep~rt of Gouernmqm,whictb-is Lawes, I thiokgood ro note . on.Iey one dfificifncc, w.bich is, that aH thofe -which. haue writr:en off.aws, hauewrittoo fitherasPhilo-. fo.phe:rs,or.~~lavyiers,&n'oneas Statesmen .• . As fot the Philofophers, they make imaginary Lawesfot ~~inary,co.mon. wealtbs)& ~h(:ir difcourfes are as ' r . the •, : · r.t:he ftcond hOo{e. . · o 7 1 ; f ·the Stars, which giue little lighrbecaufe they,are fo · high.For the Lawyers, rhey·write accprding to the Stares where they Jiue,whar is re.ceiued Law,& not , What oughtto be Law; For thewifedomeof a L;tw• ·maker is one,&.of tt·Law·yer;is· anorher.For ther.ate - · =in ·Narure cc:rraine founraines of Iuftice,whence all · C·iui) ·La we~ are deriued, but as firea.mes5 & like as -.waters doe take tin<fturesand tafies frotn the foyles · rough which r-hey run; So doe ciujJl,Lawes vary . accfording to the Regions-and gouernments \Vhere · tneyarepHited,thoughtheyproceed from the fame. ~ fountaines; ·Againe the wifedqn1e of a Lawmaker ) . fttille-rh·not on ely in ·a platforme.of Iufiice;but in ' he application thereof, taking.imoconft~eration; by w · ttneanes Lawes may be made cerratne, and ~ ~fl; af'e. the caufes &rem~dies oft he doubtful netic .. ;ffla;nceriaintieMLaw,bywh3tlt\eanesLawesmay • maQeaprand eafie to be executed, and what are · ib~iltlpediments, and remediesi!l the~xuuti~nof es, what inf14~nce lawes rouch1ng puuare nght o~ Meum:& Tttum,haue into the pubfike flare, and ~how they tnay be made apt and ·agreahle,~low la\ves · ro he penned and delruered, whether ln T,exts or Jilfls,hritft or l4rge, )Vith prt4mh/es., or. withont :~f.ft"-'m~ they are· ro bee. prtmed ancl reformed from ·ft~·e to time, and what is the befi me·a~es to ke~pe ·l{~tlrttfi fro being too·v"ft in volumes,ortooful of mr1l .. B JIIii·'itie ·& crofoejfe,hovv they are co. b~ exp?unde?, ~111!1 ·~-"'fDn cauf~s emergent , an~· tudi-ctally d1f. · and whenvpon ~f~onfts and: conferences · i~g.generall points or quefiions, bow they · ,E e e ,.a . •'are .. |