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Show Part 1; of MA N- Clio/n14. Part1. C H A P. XIV. 0f Ihefirfl and freon/l NATu R ALL LA W a s, aadof‘CONTRACTs. ' He R 1 0 ii '1' O r NAT .u a a, which Writers commonly call 511m Nizzzrmlo, is the Liberty each man hath, to uie his own power, as he will himlellgtor the prefervation of his own Nature 3 that is to lay, of his own Life, and conleguently, of doing any thing, which in his own Judgement, and Realon, lice Dim, Ian/MI. A Lm of .. . ‘ . {hall conceive to be the aptelt means thereunto. B L13 rm Y, isunderltood, according to the proper lignificatioii of the word,tl16 abience of externall Impediments: which Impediments, may oft take away. part of a mans power to do what he: would 3 but cannot hinder him from ufing the power'left him, ZlCCOf. ding as his judgement, and reafon {hall dictate to him, A L A w 0 F NAT u R F. ,(Lex Mmmlzsrhs a P_recept,or§enerall JVMm'e Rule, found out by Reafon, by which a man is forbidden to 03 that, Whmi ‘ which is deftruétive of his life, or taketh away the means of prefer- ving the fame -, and to omit, that, by which he thinketh it may be bell preferved. For though they that ipeak of this fubjeé‘t, ufe to con- found 33745, and Lex, Right and Law 3 yet they ought to be diflingui- Inflow" 0f {bed 3 becaufe RI our, confifieth irrlibei~ty to do, or to forbeare; qulst and Law. Ahzrmntllr (- Whereas L A w, determineth, and bindeth to one of them : {0 that Law, and Right, differ as much, as Obligation, and Liberty -, which in one and the fame matter are inconfii'tent. And becaufe the condition of Man, ( as hath been declared in the y Chaer}. of MA N. 65 drfmce of him/el/e he flmll think it muff/try, to lay down tho; right to all things -, and he contented with fl) much ltherty dgdlflfi other mm, in he would Allow other men again]? himfelfr. For as long as every man holdeth this Right,of doing any thing he likcth; fo long are all men in the condition of Warre. But if other men Will not lay down their Right, as well as he 3 then there is n?) Rea‘fon for any one, to devell himl‘elfe of his : For that were to expofe hinifelfe to Prey, t which no man is bound to) rather than to difpofe liimfelfe to Peace. This is that Law of the Gofpcll; Whntflawer you reqfoz're that other: [ho/(Id don) yamthatdo yo to them. And that Law of all men, filo"! tihl fieri 7m; err/y, Alfrri m feocrzr. ' _ . . T o lay (low/‘26 a mans Right to any thing, is to dew/l himfelfe of W52! " 1' r'" the Lihiirty, of hindring another of the benefit of his own Right to my" the lame, ' For he that renounceth, or palleth away his Right, giveth 10' ' not to any other man a Right which he had not before 5 be‘Caufe‘thei-e is nothing to which every man had not Right by Nature : but onel Randeth out of his way, that he may enjoy his own originall Right, i-vithouthindranee from him;not without hindrance from another. Sothatthe eflfeét which redoundeth to one man, by another mans defect of Right, is but lb much diminution of impediments to the ufe of his own Right originall, Right is laydafide, either by {imply Renouncing it 3 or by Tranfl Retail-wizard ferring it to another. By Simply R 2 N on N _c I N o -, when he cares R1,?" WI)" not to whom the benefit thereot‘redoundeth. By TRANS p E R R] N o 5 "TMmFJrri '5' 4g when he intendeththe benefit thereof to fome certain perfon, or per- R; (l)!a what. l‘ons. And when a man hath in either manner abandoned, or granted :iwa his R ight -, then is he laid to be OR 1.10 n D, or B ou ND, not to Obligatiwl. hinzcr tliolc, to whom fiich Right is granted, or abandoned, from the lvcncntot' itzand that he Ought, and it is his Durr, not to make Dirt}. T") W" '3" precedent Chapte r)is a condition of Warre of every one againlt eve- myd that voluntai‘yac't of his own: andthat fuch hindrance is IN- i u s r i c I‘ , and IN [UR Y, as being Sim from; the Right being be- Jedi/5"": RR]? '0 w" ry one 3 in which cafe every one is governed by his own Reafon , and lore renounced,ortransferred. So that Injury, or Ihjzoflioe, in the there is nothing he can make ufe of, that may not be a help unto him, k()nll‘()\Cl'llC§ or the world,is fomewhat like to that, which in the in preferving his life aigainfi his enemyes 3 It followeth, that in fucha condition,every man 135 a Right to every thing; even to one ano= dii‘pntations ot' Scholers is called Ahjhrclzzy. For as it is there called thcrs body. And therefore, as long as this naturall Right of every man to every thing endureth,there can be no fecurity to any man, to in the world, it is called Injullice, and Injury, voluntarily to undo that, which from the beginning he had voluntarily done. The way (how {trong or wile foever he be,) of living out the time, which Na~ by which a man either iimply Renounceth , or Transferred] his U ""5 ture ordinarily alloweth men to live. And confequently‘it is a pre7'1,‘.F,y):d_:_ cept, or generall rule of Reafon, Thar every man, ought to code/wow mm: H! Law PL'Jt‘t', a; farm {or he has hope of oht/iz'm'hg it ~, and when he g‘Na-mrc. chain it, that he may fork, and rifle, all helps, and rid-vant comm ages of l'I'Jrre. The firfl branch of which Rule, containeth the firll, and Fundamentall Law of Nature, which is, to jeeh Peace, and follow"The Second,the fumme of the Right of Nature 5 which is, By 413 mam: we can, to dl'fl'llll our felt/e5. The floaud From this Fundamentall Law of Nature, by wnich men are com‘ 11.1w (if Nav- manded to endeavour Peace, is derived this fecond Law - That a mm "W- lu'ii‘illifigfli‘htB ozhersare [i] too, ,1; five-forth, at f0; Peace, 117m? . defence in Abiiirdity, to contradict what one maintained in the Beginning : Right, is a Declaration, or Significatiomby {ome voluntary and firth- ticnt ligne,orlignes,tl11t he doth {o Renounce,or Transferre; or hath it.) Renouncedpr Transferred the fame,to him that acceptcth it. And [,1th Signes are either \Vosz onely,or Actions onely -, or (as it hap- pcnc‘tlimollofien 1 both \Vords,and Aftions. And the fame are me Bo. 1) s , by which men are bound, and obliged: Bonds, that have their ltrengrh, not from their own Nature, ( for nothing is more call ly brokentlien a mans word» bur from Feare ofiome evillconfe«inence upon the rupture. , . \\'iieiiii);ii'erii man 'l‘ransferrcth his Right, or Renouncethit; it N" "/1 isezaltey in eoniideration of fome Right reciprocally transfsrred to R'K'Q‘f' ""5 liiinlElfC; "hi-""51"" |