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Show [ xiv [ XV l ] The conhfierarion ofthis point leads with his Subjects, who are his eguala both on their entrance and at their exezmt from the Stage of Life,) he immediately lofes the belt Rule for his Conduct as a me to one of the principal Grounds of Prince, and neceflarily degenerates into the latter an undoubted Right to in'fifl on this, the only fafe mode of worldly Government? Baron Pufi‘endorf's Millake, beforementioned. érutality; to that, in fuch cafes, to {uppofe that THE WILL oft/'36 Prince is to be allowed the force ofLaw is the high- He does not feem to have been aware, that, in all focieties of men governed by Laws, fome fort of general Covenant ef't ablurdity l Nay, even the Baron himfelf has elfewhere declared, that mutt be underflood to fubfilt between the "the word MAN, is thought to carry " fomewhat of Dignity in its found ; and feveral Sovereigns and their Suajeéls refpeétively: and, though fuch Co‘vmauts are not always ('xprcfléd, yet, molt cer- tainly, they are always implied 5 becaufe we mutt neceilat‘ily prefume, that #36 Good oftlie Profile is the original intention and principal end of all legal human Go- " " " " " we commonly" (lays he) " make ufe of this as the laft and the molt prevailing argument againft a rude infulter, Jam 7202‘ a Bea/l, a Dog, éut I am A MAN as well at yamfilfi Since then " human nature agrees egually to all per- to the Sovereignty or Government of " fons, and fince no one can live a focia" ble life with another, who does not " own and refpecft him asa Man; it fol- another, that he may enjoy the benefit "lows, as a command of the Law of vernments, fince all [VIM are naturally equals, and a Man who fubmits himfelf and protection of fociety, does not, on that account, ccale to be a Man; nei~ {her can the temporal Sovereign himfelf be releafed from the natural Tyes of that Relation: for, whenever he forgets that he himfelf is a Man, (ofthe fame fallible underflanding and natural infirmities " Nature, that EVERY lVIAN c/lr'em and " treat ANOTHER as one who is natural~ " 1y HIS EtLUAL, or who is A MAN as "‘ well as he." (Book 3. C. 2. p. 178.) It would therefore be unreafonable to conceive, that any lociety of MLEN thould voluntarily lubmit themlelves to a tempo~ ral with |
