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Show tefi Porn; A OfCOMMON-WE AL TH. Chop.20' garage, and to praeferibe the Rules of difoerriingpood and ism".which Rules are Lawes; and therefore in him is the Legiflativc Power. 5414! foughtthe life of David 5 yet when it was in his power to flay Soul, and his Servants would have done it, David forbad ‘ t_.5'am.z4. pm 2. OfCOMMoN-WEAL TH. Chap.2t. Man as in Monarchy, or in One Afi'embly of men, as in Popular,and Arifibcraticall Common-wealths, is as great,as poflibly men can be imaOined to make it, And though of f0 unlimited a Power, men may ~ them,Tayin , " God forhid I fltoold do froth 4» at? agomfl my Lord, the amyn'te of God. For obedience of lErvants St.Paol faith,* Ser- fanccy many evillconfequenccs, yetthe confequences of the want of ‘ Verfc-zz. mitt: oheyyoor maflerr in All thinggandf Children ohey your Parents iiiuch wo'rfe; The condition of man in this life fhallpneverbe Without Inconvenientfis but there happeneth in no Common-wealth any 5:3," 3C, in Athhing . There is fimple obedienc ‘ wilt/L33- Paternall,or Defpoticall Dominion. e in thofe that are fubjeét to Again, * The Sorih et amz' Pho- 2,3. reflex/it i» Mofet ohoyre, and therefore All that they [ha/l hid you oh- " Tit.3,z. feme, that ohjerve and do. There again is fimple obedience. And St Paul, * Worn them that they fuhy'efi themfelrver to Printer, and to the/e that are in Authority,o" ohey t em.This obedience is alfo fimple. Laflly, our Saviour himielfe acknowledges, that men ought to pay fuchtaxes asare by Kings impofed, where he fayes, Give to Ciefar that which 13 Cefizr: -, and payed fuch taxes liimfelfe. And that the ‘ Mann. 2,3. Kings word, is fuflicient to take any thing from any Subjeét, when there is need 5 and that the King is judge of thatneed : For he himfelfe,as King of the Jewes, commanded his Difciples to take the Afle, and Alles Colt to carry him into 33erojalem, faying, * Go tom the Village over again/l you, and oh flm/l find 4 fliee Afle tyed, and her Colt with her, umy them, and, ring them to me. And if my man dome long free from Sedition and CiVill Warre. In thofe Nations, whofe Common-wealths have been long-lived, and not been deflro ed, but by forraign warre , the Subyecis neVer did difpute of t 1e Soveraign Power. But howl'oeverJ an argument from the Praétife of men,that have not fifted to the bottom3 and wrth err- aét reafon weighed the caufes, and nature» of Co'mmon-wealths, and, fuller daily thofe miferie's, that proceed from the ignorance thereof, is invalid. For thou h in all places of the world, men {hould lay the foundation of their Eoufes 0n the fand,i‘t could not theneebe infer- To thefe places may be added alfo that of Genefir, " You flmfl he 4: Cody, hnommg Common-Weak s, confii'teth in certain Rules, as doth Arithmetique and Geometry-mot (as Tennis-play) on Pracrife onely: which Rules, Goodaml Evill. And verfe I I. Who wit/l naked .9 hofl thou eaten of the tree, of which totdthee that thou thou [bouldefl not eat .9 For the Cognifance or JudicI commanded thee ature ofGood and Evil, being forbidden by the name of the fruit of the tree of Know- ledge, as a triall of Adam: obedience , The Dive bition of the woman, to whom that fruit alreadyl to enflame the Arm told her that by tailing it,they {hould be as Gods feemed beautifull, Evill. Whereupon having both eaten, they , knowing Good and them Gods office, which is Judicature of Gooddid indeed take upon red no new ability to difiirtguifli between them and Evill 5 but acquiaright. And whereas it is fayd, that having eaten, they faw they were naked 5 no man hath f0 interpreted that place, as if they had n0t their own skins : the meaning is plainbeen formerly blind, and faw , that it was then they firit )udged their nakednefle ( wherein it was Gods will to create them) to uncomely ; and by being afhamed, fclfe. And thereupon God faith, Heftdid tacitely cenfure God him‘ thou eateneh‘o. as if he {hould fay, doefl; thou that oweil me obedience, take upon thee to judge of Saveraign ,my Comm. andements f VVhereby it is cleerly, (though AllegoricalPower tug/J: Y,) figmficd, that the In All i am- command, are not by Commands of them that have the right to their Subjects to be cenfured, nor MGR-nun!A" Id), difpured. So that it appear lute. (71-th Inconvenience, but what proceeds from the ASubyeéts difobedi:nce and breach of thofe Covenants, from which the CommonWealih hath its being. And _whofceVer thinking Soveraign Power too great, will feek to make it leii‘e, muftfubyeé‘t himfelfe, to the Power, that canlimit it 3 that lStO fay, toa greater. , , The orcfltcfi objection is, that of the lJi'aétife; when men ask where hind when, fuch Power has by Subyefis been acknowledged. But ode may ask them again, when, or where has there been a King- Mk you, what yoitmeon hy it, Say the Lord hath med they will let them go. They will not ask whether his of them .' And neceflity be a fuflicient title 5 nor whether he be judge of that neceflity -, but acqui‘ efce in the will of the Lord. to he it which is perpetuall warre of every man againil his neighbour, are eth plainl , ~ J"" fon,and Scripture, that the oveto my uncle rflanding, both from Rearaign Power,Whether placed in One Man, red,that {o it ou ht to be. The skill of making, and maintaining neither poor men have the leifure, not men that have had the lClfier, have hitherto had the curiofity, or the method to find out. CH AP; XXI. 0f theL I B E R TY of Suhjeflt.‘ I n l RT v, or FM. 2:. n o M a , fignifieth ( properly) the abfence Lihtrr} of Oppofition;(by Oppofition,I mean externall Impedi- "hm-i ments of motion -, ) and may be applyed no lefle to Irrationall, and Inanimate creatures, than to Rationall.For whatfo- ever is to tye'd, or environed, as it cannot move, but within a, certain fpacc, which {pace is determined by the o poiition of fome externall body, we fly it hath not Liberty to go further. And to of all liVing creatures, whileil they are imprilbned, or reitrained, with walls, or tluvns -, and of the water whilefl it is kept in by banks, or veii'els, that orherwife would fpread it felfe into a larger fpace, we Life to fay, they are not at Libert , to move in fuch manner, as‘without thofe extein'all impediments they would. But when the impediment of mo-_ tion, is in the conflitution of the thing it felfe, we ule nor to fay, it wanzsth c Liberty, but the Power to move; as whenai'tonelye th hill, or a man is faitned'to his bed by fickncir . » P . And |