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Show l V l to ellablifh the firf‘c principles on which I ted in my Declaration, antes not from have proceeded, harm it ran txpeé't to have any attention paid to tn; Arguments any which l have built upon them. (t . : ‘rv ‘0‘ i' :1) ' ‘ ‘/"‘,1"'/"'Ii‘ 'r Ll.!.lt.m thtJmcf, m] (1/ z.i. .. ~ obllinate turrtial'tv to my own al- fertion. (which i (Hamlet's was, at lirlt, too hafiily and unar‘lvifedly r‘;tade,) but from a firm perinalion, after a Holt cautious nquiry into the real {late of the controverly, that the advocates for the Liberties ot‘ Jim/and have Truth and Rea- fon on their fide, which, (l hope) the 2d Part, now added to my Declaration, will fufiiciently tel'tify. It is necefllrry alto for me to guard ' The maxim which I with to maintaln is as follows, viz. that " Law. tobind " all, mutt be alienth to by all( )." '} his maxim] have quoted in the followrng Declaration as a principle of natural Equity; though, it feems, the learned Civilian, Baron Pufl‘cndorf, has expreflly refuted to rank it with the was othl- tyre: He, or (rather lfhould fay) his Ihave quoted therein a maxim of the Tranflator, calls t: 5) it only a nation, " We cannot here but obferve," (fays he,) " that the Natz‘m, maintained by " tome authors, "Ilia! fire ijmt qf tbe (c People is rrqzzg'fite to make Lew: enlige Englifh Confiitution, as a principle of " the Subjefi 2'71 Confluence, lS neither natural rqm'z‘y, which had revioufly " true in #26 Laws (f Nature, norm the been denied that rank by one of the molt eminent civilians of his time ; and therefore, to avoid the influence of to great an " civil Laws of monarchical or of aril'to- againfi another objection which might ptrhaps hereafter have been fiarted againl‘t the following Declaration. " crati-Cal Rulers; nor indeed at all, un~ authority againfi my Argument, 1 think " lefs it be underflood of implicit eon" fent; as a man, by agreeing to the it prudent, in this Preface, to examine " Sovereignty the grounds of his ol‘=_icél*iozrs, that mv Readers may have iuti‘ 'ent evidence be.fore them to difiinguir'n where the truth lies; for it is certainly necefl‘ar‘y for me (0 ' Leg. et AEqd"iL p. 56. to w hich . is ' r' 1a ) Prrnc therefore bind atliitd, bv wfy of illuftration, " Canons . " not the Laity." is only an wed follo have I which on Editi The (5) Englifh tranflation printed at Oxford m 1710. |