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Show it"; ‘1; ' Of MJN. Chfapiti, themb thol'e that are Owners, or Governours o t it) e plainlcgeggigenr; therefhre, fuchéhings cannot be Perfonared, before t ere be fome [tare of Civill ovcrnment. ; [mu/ml '11 LikeWife Children,Fooles,and Mad-men that have no ufe of Reafort, may be Perfonated by Guardians, or Curators ,but can be no Authors (during that time) ofany action done by them, longer then (when they fliall recover the ufe of Reafon) they (hall )udge the fame reafonable. Yet during the Polly, he that hath right of governing them, may give Authorityto the Guardian. But this again has no place but in a State Civill, becaufe before fuch ellate, there is no Dominion of Perfons. 7 ' "/15 God" An Idol,or meer Figment of the brain, may be Perfonated; as were the Gods of the Heathen 5 which by fuch Olficers as the State appointed,were Perfonated, and held Bollelfionsgnd other Goods, and Rights, which men fromtime to time dedicated, and confecra‘ ted unto them. But Idols cannot be Authors: for an Idol is nothing. The Authority proceeded from the State : and therefore before introdue‘tion of Civill Government, the Gods of the Heathen could not be Pcrfonated. M" m" 664' ‘ The true God may be Perfonated, As he Was; firfl, by Mofir, who governed the Ifraelites, (thatwere not his, but Gods people,) not in his own name, with Hot dim Mo/e: , but in Gods Name, With Cir/tam. enough to delh‘oy the Allirmativcs -, and therebythe cxcefTe of Netative hath. And a Reprefentarive of even number, efpecially when the num- R glare/Emu. ber is not great, whereby the contradictory voyces are oftentimes river, tat/am equall, is therefore oftentimes mute, and uncapable of Atftion. Yet the number in ionic cafes contradiflory voyccs equall in number, may determine it eveh,'mpra. a queltion; as in condemning, or abfolving, equality of votes, even fit{1515. in thattheycondemnc not, do abl‘olve-7 but not on the contrary condemne, in that they ablblve not. For when a Caufe is heard; not to condemnc, is to ablolve : but on the contrary, to fay that not abfolving, is condemning, is not true. The like it is in a deliberation oft-xecuting prel‘ently,or deferring tillanother time : For when the voyces are cquall, the not decreeing Execution, is a decree of Dilation. Or if the number be odde,as three,or more, (men, or allembliesfl Negritty»! whereofevery one has by a Negative Voice, authority to take away 11:7/1‘6‘6. the efletft of all the Affirmative Voices of the refi, This number is no Reprei‘entarive ,beCaufe by the diverfity of Opinions, and Interefls of men, it becomes oftentimes, and in cafes of the greatefl confequence, a mute Perfon, and unapt, as for many things elfe, fo for the government of a Multitude, efpeCially in time of Warrc, Of Authors there be two forts. The Erlt fimply {0 called 3 which I have before defined to be him, that owneth the Aétion of another fimply. The fecond is he, that owneth an Aétion, or Covenant of duce all Nations into the ingdome of his Father, not as of himfelfe, but as lent from his Father. And thirdly3 by the Holy Ghofl, another conditionally; that is to fay, he undertaketh to do it, if the of every one of that Multitude in particular._ For it is the unity of Palm One_ And it is the Reprefenterthat be eth the Perfon, and but one Perfon: And Ilm't'y, cannot otherwife ge underflood in Mul- titude. Every one 1: And becaufe the Multitude naturally is not One, but Many, they Aid/107‘. cannot be underflood for one-7 but many Authors, ofevery thing their chrefentative faith , or doth in their name, Every man giving their common Reprel‘entcr, Authority from himfelfe in particular; and owning all the afiions the Reprefenter doth, in cafe the give him Authority without flint: Otherwile, when they limit im in what, and how farre he ihall reprefent them, none of them owneth more, than they gave him commiifion to Aer. .4" Az'Ior And if the Reprefentative confift of many men the v0 ce‘ofthe "I"? ""3"! greater number, miiflt be confidei'ed as the to cc of them all For if "W f" i", the lcfler numbe0;,» H m' example)i‘y _ ~. ‘ f ipronoun, cerr . mm; (‘1 an. the greater inthe Negative, there will be nthe AilnmathC, and Negatives more than enough 83 gatives, {binding uncontradit‘ted, are the onely voyCe the Reprefen- Blelled Saviour 331m Chg}, that came to reduce the Jewes, and iii- the Reprefenter, not the unity of t e Reprefented, that maketh the '3 Of MA N. Hot dim Dominm. Secondly, by the Son of man, his own Son, our or Comforter, fpeaking, and working in the Apofiles : which Holy Ghofl, wasa Comforter that came nor of himfelfe; but was (em, and proceeded from them both. , A MIL/IiA Multitude of men, are/made 0m Perfon, when they 'are by one mde of mm , man, or one Perfon, Reprefenred 5 lo that it be done with the confent [mm on: Terfor]. Part1. other doth it not, at,or before a certain time. And thefe Authors conditionall, are generally called 5 u R E r Y a s, in Latine Fideju/jb- rm, and Sporifiirer, and particularly for Debt, Freda, and for Appcav rance before a Judge, or Magifirate, Vader. A or rage".4 3-: 3‘ |