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Show Thoffi Bookgoptbe fribpart . = Tt, Sea Cuarat.a Currngr. cc, howto ikicreafe,orpreferue bumane nature: all Seabea riches: digmities; emipires, trinmphs, trophees, are appointed for thofe, that know bow to affiiti,. Prduble,by deflroy it, Cefar and Alexander, have va-madeandflaine, each of them, more than a iAitlion of meh : but they made none,norleft none behinde'theit. Suclr is the errour ofMans iudgeiment,in valuing things according to the conimon opinion. But the tte hartie ofTyranny, whenit growes to ripeneffe; issnone other, than Feritiels the Taine that CArifforle{aith to bee worfe than any vice. It exceedeth indeed/all other vices, iffuing from the paffions incident both to Man and Beaft;noleffe than Peritrie, Murder,Trea: fon, and ihe like horrible crimes, exceed in villatiie, the faults ofGluttony & Drunken. neéfit, that grow from more ignoble appetites. Hereof Scirar, Pracrufies, and Pityo- 99 eamptes that vled theirbodily forceto the deftru@tion of Mankitide, are" ‘norberret examples, than Phaleris, Dionpfius and Agathocles, whofe mifchicuous heads were df. filted by the hands of deteftable Rufhans. The fame barbarous' defiré of Lordfhip, tranfported thofe old examples ofFeritie, and thefe lattér Tyrants, beyond the bounds ‘ -ofreafon: neither ofthem knewthe vfe of Rule, northe difference betweeh Freeinen i and flaues. Therule ofthe husband ouer the wife,and of parents ouertheir children, is natural, and appointed by God himfelfe , fo thatit is alwaies, and fimply,allowableand good. The former ofthefe,is.as the dominion of Reafon otier Appetite;thelatteris che whole authoritic, which one Free man can haue ouer another. Therule of a King iso more, 3 for none other,than ofa commonFather ouer his whole counttie:which hethat knows what the powerofa Fatheris, or oughtto be, knowesto be ¢nough.But thereis agrea. ter, and moré Mafterly rule, which God gauevnto d4dam, when he faid; Hiswe domiGinéaivry, 0% ower thefb ofthe Sea,andouer thefowle of the aire; and enery lining thing that maucth Geng.2, ‘pon the earth : whichalfo he continucth vato Noah, andhis children, faying, Thefeare Ofyon, andthe dread ofyou,(bellbe wpon ne beaft ofthe earth, and-vpon eneryfowlt of the aire, Upon allthat moucth vponthe earth, dud upon all thefifbes of the Sea, into your bands arethey delivered. He who gauethis dominion vnto Man, did give alfo in aptitude tovfe it. The execution ofthis power hath finceextendedit felfe, ouer a very great part of Mankinde. There are indeed no fmall numbers of men; whofe difabilitie to 3 ‘ouerne themfelues, proues them, according vnto riffotles doGrine, to be naturally aues. AriPebds.ciz. Yet finde I notin Scriptureany warrant,to oppreffe men with bondage : valeffethe la;wfulneffe thereofbe fufficiently intimated, whereit is faid, That a man {hill not be Sing for the death of a {eruant, whomhe hathflaine by correction, ifthe feruant Bacar. >t lite a day or two,becaule he is his money;or elle by the captiuity of the Midianitifh girls, 30-4 40" Suhich were made bond-flaues, and the Sanctuary had a part ofthem for the Lords #17 Gengas. bute. Doubtieffethe cuftome hath been very ancient: for woah' laid this curfe vpoa ‘Camaan,that he fhould be aferwant offeruants , and Abraham had ofPharaoh, among 0- Genazwae, thergifts,men-feruants and maid-[eruants, which were none otherthan flaues. Chrilti- 49 an Religion isfaid to haue abrogatedthis old kindeofferuilitie: but furely,they are 4e- oftheHiftorieoftheWorld, eeeabtine;48hthe nature ofmat: Wherein(to omitthe infiniteditanceln chlate oF thie eletéereprobateithe wifelt excell the moft foolith,by far greater deste than the rh foolifh of men dothfurpaffethe wifelt of beats: Thereforewhen Cornneiferation hash pileti way'to Reafon:we shallfinde'thac Natureis the ground even of Mafterly power, dndoFfertile obedicttce,which'is thereto cotefpondent. Burat may bétruely faid,that fomcounties hane fibfitted lorig;without the vfe ofanyferuilitie:as alfoitis true,that foitie'cOfintries Hajic Hot the vie ofany tame cattell. Indeed theaffedions which vphold Ciiilfinte,arechough more noble}tiot fgtimply needfull,vnto the fuftentation citherok ouitkitide,as aré Luft,and the like,or ofeuery one,as are hunger and thirft; which not: $i Withitandingate the loweft in degree.But where moft vile,and feruile dif,pofitions,have liberty to thew themf{elues begging in theftreets;there may we more inftly wonder,how the datigerous toile'offed-faring mencanfind enough to vndertake them,than how the {ware oFidle'vagabondsfhouldincreafe, by acceffe ofthofe, ‘that are weaty oftheir Own note pairifull condition: This mayfuffice to' proue,that in Mankind thereis found, ingtaftéd cuen by Nature,a defire ofabfolute dominion: ‘whereunto the generall cu{tome ofNations doth fub{cribe,together with the pleafure which moft men‘take in flatterers, that are the bafeft offlaues. : si This being fo, wefinde no caufeto maruaile, how Tyranny hath beenfo rife inall a= ges,and practifed,not only in thefingle rule offomevicious Prince,but euer by confent 30%whole Cities andEftates: fince,other vices hauc likewife gotten head,and borne a ge« nerall {way,notwithftanding that the way of vertue be more honorable,and commodi« ous. Few there are that haue vfed well theinferiour Paffions: how then can weexpect, thatthe inoft nobleaffections fhould not be difordered? In the gouernment of wife and childten‘fomeare veterly catele(fé, and coriuptall by their dull conninencie: others, by inéfterly tigotir, ‘hold theit owne bloud vider condition offlaucry. ‘To be a good Goutthoiir is a fate: commendation: and to'preferthe Weale publike aboueall refpects whatfoéucr,is the Vertue itiftly termed Heroscal/, Ofthis Vertue,many ages affoord not many examples. Hecor is named by Ari/tor/e,as‘one ofthem;& deferuedly, ifthis praife beduetd extraordinary height offortitude, vied in defence of 2 mans own countiié, ., 3° Butifve conifider,that a loue ofthe generall good cannotbe perfecwithout reference Vato thefountaine ofallgoedne(fe: we {hall finde,thatno morallvertue,how ereat focuer, cant, by it felfe; deferie the commendation of more than Vertue, asthe Heroitall doth. Wherefore we mult {earch the Scriptures, for patternes heréof; ficli as Dawid,so/aphat, and Joes were, OFChriftian Kings,ifthere were many fuch, the world would foone behappy. It isnot my purpofeto wrongthe worth ofany,by denying the praife where itis due;or by preferring a leffe excellent. Buthethat can finde a King religious, and zealous in Gods caufe, withoutinforeementeither ofaduerfitie, or of fome regard of ate;d/procute! OFche generalpeace and quier,who not onely vfeth his authoritie, but 40 addes thetrauell ofhis eloquence,in admonifhing his Iudgesto doeiuftice; by the vi+ porous influence ofwhofe Gouernment,ciuilicie is infufed, eucn intothofeplaces, ‘that Epif.ophile, ceived thatthinkefo. Saint Paw/ defired the libertie of Oxefinens, whom ke had wonne ue been the dens offauage Robbers and Cut-throtes; onethat hath quite abolifheda ith Brehon Law,by which an whole Nationofhisfubiects were held inbondage,anid one,wWhofe higher Vertue & vvifedome doth make the praifenot only of Nobility and 2.Cor.c.7:v.20. Biieth ynto feruants : Let cacry man abide inthefame calling wherein he was callediart phew that aré-vnderhis power, together with a world ofchiefe commendations belonging valet. Ort, -wnto Chrift: yet wrotefor this ynto Philemon, by way ofrequeft,crauing it asa benefit, Hot vigingitasadutie. Agreeable heretois the direction, which the fame Saint?a, called, being aferuant?care notfor itbut ifthom maift be madefree, vfe it rather. It 1s U8, that Chriftianreligion hath procured libertie vnto many; not onely in regard rodti But forthat the Chriftian Matters ftood in fear,ofbeing difcouered by their flaues,va" the perfecutors of religion, A¢ahomet likewife by giuinglibertic to'his followers, &> 5 many vnto hisimpictie: but whether he forbadeit, as vnlawfull; vnto his fettators, ks ¥ -hold one another of them in bondage,I cannottel;faue tharby the practice ofthe7H and Moores,it feemeshe didnot. In England we had many bond-feruants, yatil ia timeofour laft ciuill wars:and I think that the Lawes concerning Villenage at oe ch force,ofwhich the lateft are the tharpeft. And now,fince flanes were made free, W . Were ofgreat vfeand feruice,there are srowne vp atabble of Rogues,Cutpurles ther thelike trades; flauesin Nature,though notin Law, re that it is naturall. And certainly wefinde not fiich a latitude of differen pate But whetherthis kinde ofdominion be lawfull, or not; Arifterlehath well prene other Gthaments; Biit ofabftinence from the bloud, the wities, and the goods, of thofe Vato foie B66d'Princes,to appéar leffe regardable: he,! fay, that can find fucha King, ndeth 4hexaitiple;worthy to adde vnto vertue an honourabletitle, if it were formerly WantingVinder fuéli'a King, iris likely by Gods bleffing,that a Land fhall flourith,with Sincreafe ofTradein countries before vaknown;, that Ciuility and Religion hall:-be Propagaredinto barbarous and heathen countries ; andthat the happinedfe of his fubletts,thall caufe the Nations farre off remoued, to wilh' him their Soueraigne. Inecd Rot adde hereunto,that all the a@ionsoffucha King,euenhis bodily exercifes,doe par take ofvertue; fince all things tehding to the preferuation ofhis life-and health, or to the mollifying oFhis cares,(who fixing his contemplation vpon God, fecketh how to iutate the vnfjpeakeable goodneffe, ratherthan the inacceffible maieftie, with both of Which himfelfe is indwed,as farre'as hurfiane nature is capable) doe alfo belong to the herance ofthar common geod,which he procureth. Left any man fhouldthinke me "anfported with admiration, or other affection, beyond the bounds of,wa I <a ereunto, |