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Show .. ( l6 ) all, as much to one Man as another, be ~hanged into Particular ? Can ir be broken wHhouc .a Force w Nature? Or, is it not broken whe!lu is made Particular? And is it not made ParncuIar, when f8me are excluded the Common Benefit:> And are not fome excluded, when they are ~or fuffered w enjoy the Common Benefit? Or, Do they ~njoy the Com?lon Benefit, wh~ are excluded? And, Is nor rhts to force Nat~re. And Can Nature be forced withoUt the Vwla. tion 'of Nature ? Which is accounted Murder. The fame that faid, He thM Jheddeth Man's Blood, by Man flJu/J bis Blood be fhed ; for in the Image. of ' God made be Man: The fame gave Man D~rmmon over the Reafts of the F'ield~ ana the Fo?v.ls of the Air, ancl the Fifhes of the Sea, ana bad hzm fubdue it ; ar~d made all Men of one Blood tu dweO. on a!J the Face of the Earth ; and he that ViolateJ the one, Commits the othe1·; for things that are Natural, are of the fame Qgality ; and the Offence done againfi one thing that is fo, is of the fame Nacure, as is done unto the refi, which no Law can Tolerate, nor no Judge make ( rhat is ro iay) rhat ro be Law which is againll Nature, becaufe it Voids the Law (be it what it will) rhat is to fay, that which againft Nat,ure is1 : • And the Reafon is plain, becaufe Law is to preferve Namre, or that which is Natural, or · Common unto all, and is an Effiux, ~r a Fruit of that, or that which is the Ground of Lawf which were it not for, or to ferve, defend or preferve (and where it needs it nor, there is no need of the Law) the Law would not be, for it fi:ands in Narure, and when it deviates there· . · from, or feeks ro dellroy it, itss from its Ground, and mufr be reducsd to Nature, not Nature un· to it; Nature muft b~ the meafure of Law, nor Law ( J7 ) Law of Nature, and this is manifdl : What would become of all the Dilfenring Perfons in the World, if they who h~ve Power in rheir hands fhould ler none breathe where they have Power who from rhem Diffent ? What had be. come of you after this rate ? Had nor the Bifhops as much Right to have call ye our of all England's Dominions, and to have prohibited all Maller's of Ships to bring you thilher, or your felves from coming in, on the Penalty of the Houfe ofCorreC!ion or wmfe, as ye have done, who Dilfented from them ? For, if ic be lawful for you, being feared in a place, and having Power ( and yet yours is bur Relative, and Dependent on England) to to Prohibit and Rdtrain all char you like not ; ir is lawful for all who are fo feared to do the fame; and New-England is upder England, as are the Ifles of Wight, and rhe Englijh Filhing Places in Newfoundla~d. And jf if it be lawful for all to do fo ( and your Law EllablHhes it) where then will ye go a~ your 11exr Remove, or imo what Corner of the Earrh feeing that there is fcarcel y · an inl}apired Spo; that is one with you? Bur why nor inro your [this] JurlrdiClion ? Are Y<W intailed thereunro, you and your Heirs for ever P How came ye fo ·to be; and by what Right ? Is it becaufe ye came out of Old- Engl~ nd? So did rhefe. Is it becau(e you are E,Jg- .dijh~Men ? So are rhey. Is ir becaufe ye DitTenrtd from rhe Governmen·t Efrablifh'd, and fo fled from rJ1e Trial of your Principle ? Thefe ftand ro their Pr~n€iple, and through all Splfering., ~orne co yo~ to Convert rh~reunco. Ifye fay, We are a People Independent pf our [elves, and fo may make Laws wirhin our own Jurifdiltion ; ~hen .Y.~ are not Dependent on Englan4 : ~f £hat C 3 from |