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Show The PREFACE. The P K i-: i: A c E. erfe themfelves in difiant Habitations for their better accom, modation of Air, and more plentiful maintenance ; And the ch, The hand head of Mankind as long as he lived, was a Uiiiv'erfal Monar hougii all parts or the natural Law have the fame 50mm": :ioii, yet fame have a precedence in order before figiflsprc- s, Siliiyil‘lfi havino a power in Nature to enact Laws an? (ipnfiiltutiopl Oilrus). and do challenge a greater necefsity, as being offgijefllaiiigs: gap/io- Rules and Miealures to govern all Perfonf and altni 1:5, mesa ty defcending from him; but when this 1 aient, tiis bieat u - feraign was laid afide by {llat‘COHiIIIOn Fate of Death, that _ ‘ univerfal Power was abrogated in him. And every Mailer of a family grew coordinate in Power, having no coercive Authority over each other 5 but on the one fide might violate common Iui‘tice at their pleafure, andbe diflurbers ofthe quietude and furprifers of the Liberty, and in, vaders of each others Propriety, and might on the other hand, which holdeth greater Analogy to right Reafou and primi, tive Law of Nature, as Perfons oblige each other to Virtue Life of the Law in order to its execution , and here we muff 33:33.4" pay Obedience to the King, as the Protector-oi the Law, lilixitii' and the "'ather of the Countrey, and the Supream Go, veriior and Latin/giver, in whom the Legilliltive Power prim, cipally relideth, and to all Magifl'rates for his fake, as acting by his Power and Authority. And although fonietimes the appetite offome inferior Good, "PM?" be hit clillant from the appetite of our firft Being, yet as it igliiicriilciit relatcth to necefiities, fubfervient to the prefervation and ha , Eiiiii'iiii: and Honour to each otherin Brotherly ltincliiefs, and in the pinefs of it, it is full within the verge of the Law of Nature, {5335 of performance of mutual Offices of Friendlhip and Jultice, as which defcendeth to the utmoft circumftances , and moft Nam" minute cafes of our happy Life. And to offer no violation the great initruments of Happinefs Whereupon, every Mm fler of a Family having an equal Power in Nature, and could nOt exercife a 'urifdietion over each Other, were forced in or; der to fatisfy their own Appetites in accomplifhing the great defign of Nature, founded in a happy Life,- to‘enter into mutu» Themutu- a1 Contracts, as fo many Laws which they moltfolemnly obli; :ifigenr‘iiess ged each other to keep-inViolable, to fecure their Juli Liberty pafsions as - different ILmanati The various and Property. Swedby ons ol 1 . ~ . . , Cotitraéts, the IrafCible and ConcupifCible Appetite exprefled in me fear ofevil,as deflruétivefind the choice ofGood, as perfective of our Nature, were the firfl and grand Ellicitors of Families and Societies, in Politie to bind up each others perfons in mutual Covenants, for the prefervation of the publick Peace and PM» vate intereit of Mens Fortunes and Liberties,- and upon this account, are Sanétions ordained for regulating the extravagan' cies of hden and Societies, who being their own Carvers, upa on the flock ofSelf/love, would unequally preferve themfelves, and unreafonably deftroy Others, unlefs they were bounded Covenants with Laws equally inftituted for their mutual happinefs. "1nd $3313- becaufi: many necefSities do frequently intervene our firl Lena 33:31:33 trac'ts, which cannot be made fo abfolute, upon one forefight fons. more iiiiportriice cud ufe, and fucli clo fpeak our Obedi, 311:5": ence and Suhmifsion to Governors, upon whom dependeth the Ol'cfllt'li'zn as to prevent all errors and inconveniences that may enfue, it is very reafonable to alter our Covenants, which though afz ter Sanctions, yet are to be obferved with the fame Faith which engaged us in our firft Contracts. to the Life, Fortunes, Relatives of our neighbour, are great infiairces of that Jullice, by which we accomplifh the great defign of Nature of being Happy. . . . ti '- The primitive Laws of Nature were very few, and aftep The rive r . LEM-Tl ward were handed down from Age to Age, from Perfons affirm- to Families, from Families to Societies, from Societies to giggg'm Kingdoms, and were in truth, and in the main but two 5 "mill", Firlt, our Duty to our Nlaker, and our Second to our Eligiirtzlgm Selves, and to our Neighbor, which is performed by that (thi‘nliiilg great {30nd, and cnclearment of Love, which rendreth thofe "DI" to our Ma- high obligations clue to God and him more pleafant, and §°f 0"! tevcsant _ . . . . eafy, when acted With qualifications of being amiable as Ncishbourthe one is effentially , the other derivatively good. And by the defign of our firft production, as we are the mom Emanations of that eflential Beinrr, we are obliO‘ed b' the "(mm a _ b b y Man is Law of Nature, to pay him all Homage and Obedience, "1311236de and all Julhce and Charity to our Neighbour, as he par; :r3;:,ilff . x . . tics nth 0 r tie iiac i I mace w o r UOC c i'in I‘us Bcine,- 4an d V here our Duty to God, and juftice to our Neighbour (managed by Analogy of Equality, as relating to our Selves) is accoma phlhed by the bond of Love, which doth not here fpealc a Pafsion but a Duty which Howeth from arule of Naé ture, and regulateth Our neighborhood by proportions of Jul'tice‘ And "W" 2 |