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Show 0ij 0 MMO N-WE AL 71!. ‘cazpas. but as Enemies. For Rehellim, is but warre renewed. anardj; (1'R e w A no, is either of szt, or by C_nntr_ac7. When by Conth! r Salary, tract, it is called Salary, and Wages; which is benefit due for feror G rpm. vice performed , or promifed. When of Gift ,_1t ls benefit proceeding from the grace of them that befiow rt , to encourage, fear/ire not Rmnrdr. ters {peak of his Difeafes, and the caufes of his Mortality 5 and of what Lawes of Nature he is bound to obey. " otherwife, he is bound onely in honour, to acknowledgement, and an endeavour of requitall. For thou h men have no lawfull remedy, when they be commanded to quit t eir private bufinefle, to lervethc publique, without Reward, or Salary ~, yet theyare not bound thereto, by the Law of Nature,nor by the Inlhtution ofthe C ommonwealth, unlelfe the fervice cannot Otherwife be done, becaufc it 15 C H A P. XXIX. Of thofe thingrthal I'mGm, ortend to the D I s s o L HT I o N of .z Common-wealth, The benefit which a Soveraign belloweth on a Subject, for fear of fome power, and ability he hath to do hurt to the Common-wealth, are not properly Rewards -, for they are not Salaryes -, becaufe there is in this cafe no contract firppofed, every man beino obliged already not to do the Common-wealth diflervice : nor are they Graces-7 bee caufe they be extorted by fear, which ought not to be incident to the Soveraign Power: but are rather Sacrifices, which the Soveraign (confidered in his naturall perfon, and not in the perfon ofthe Common-we alth) makes,for the appealing the difcontent of him he thinks the contrary, to the continuance, and increaling offurther extortion. (main and C2111!"!!- heaven, (though not on earth )that he fnould {land in fear of, and raign of a Common wealth appointeth a'Salary to any pubquue Office, he that receiveth it, is bound in Julhce to performe his oflicc; more potent than himfelfe ~, and encourage not to obedience, but on Sa/ar in Chlpdg. whole Lawes he ought to obey g I {hall in the next following L hap- fare, as a debt. flawed for Of C 0M M0 N-W/E A L TH, i; mthin , faith he, on earth, to he r/mpared with him. He is made a a: not to £6 afraid. Heefieth every high thing helm him 5 and t: Kin of all the children of pride. But becaufe he is mortall, and fubject. to decay, as all other Earthly creaturesaregrand becaufe there is that in or enable men to do them {ervice And therefore when the Sove. {uppofed the Soveraign may make uie of all their means, infomuch as the molt common Souldier, may demand the wages of his warre[s'rmjr‘lt h!- Par! 2" And whereas fome Salaries are certain, and proceed from the publique Treafure -, and others uncertain, and caluall, proceeding from the execution of the Office for which the Salary is ordained -, the la- ter is in form cafes hurtful] to the Common-wealth; as in the cafe of Judicature. For Where the benefit of the judges, and Miniflers of a Court of]ufiice,arifeth for the multitude of Caufes that are brought to their cognifance, there mull needs follow two Inconvenienccs: One, is the nourilhing of futes 5 for the more lures, the greater benefit: and another that depends on that, which is contention about Jurifdiaiomeach Court drawing to it felfe, as many Caufes as i: can. But in offices of Execution there are not thole Inconveniences:~ becaufe their employment cannor be encrcafed by any endeavour or their own. And thus much lhall luflice for the nature of Punirhmenn and Reward -, which are, as it were, the Nerves and Tendons, that move the limbes and joynts of a Common-wealth. Hitherto I have fettorth the nature of Man, ( whole Pride and Other Pallions have compelled him to fubmit himfelfe to Gorcm """t‘aflo ether with the great power of his Governour, whom i compare to Leviathan, taking that com arilbn out Of the two 1213 verles of the one and fortiCth of fob -, where God having {ct forth Eilegtcat powerof Leviathan, calleth him King ofthc Pihud. Tit"! Hough nothing can be immortall, which mortals make; yet, if men had the ufe of reafon they pretend to, their Common-wealths might be fecured, at leafl, from perifhing by internall difeafes For by the nature of their Inftitution, DWI/"rim @‘(mrrm""Z‘i‘WV ightlflfri: they are delignedtolive, as long as Man-kind, or as the Lawes of far; "hi", Nature, or as jultice it felfe, which gives them life, Therefore when mm, 4 they come to be dilfolved, not by externall violence, but intel'tine dilorder, the fault is not in men, as they are the Matter, but as they are the Maize", and orderers of them. For men, as they become at Lift weary of irregular jufiling,'and hewing one another, and defire with all their hearts, to conforme themfelves into one firme and lafling edifice; {o for want, both of the art of making fit Lawes, to {quart their aflions by, :mdallbof humility,and patience , to fuffer the rude and cornbcrlbme points of theirprclt‘nt greatnelle to be ta- ken of}, they carmOt without the help of a very able Architea, be tompiled, into any other than a cralie buildingfl‘uch as hardly lalling out their own time, mull afl'uredly fall upon the heads of their pollerity. Amongllthe Ihfirmi/iertheretore of a Common-wealth, I will reckon inthe hill place, thole that :irile from an lmperfec‘t Inflitw l\)l1,.intl rei‘ctnble the direafes of a naturall body, which proceed hour a Detectuous Procrcation. or which, thisis one, Thaw 7mm to ohmm a Kin dome, [rfamemmmf/tlIll/1:5 iii/mm rwth le/Ie Power, them Io the Peace, W13 defence of the fl/Irte pair??? (fwd/Ilm-wmllh 13‘ fict‘rflarlly "glared. From whence it commCth t0 pazlc,_tha t whenthe exercife or the Power layd by, is for the pubquue larety to be returned it hath the relemblance of an unjui't aé‘t ; u hich diipoletlr great numbers of men (when occalion is to rtbell, in the {amt- manner as the bodies of children, prefcnted ) gotten by duealed parents, are {ubject either to untimely death, or to purge the L1 quality,derivcd l'romtheir Vicious conception, by breaking out into orles and lcabbs. And when Kings deny themfelv es {ome fuch methary Power, it is not alwaycs C though iometimes ) out of ignorance or what is necellary to the office they undertake, but manV I UIDCK fir-_- Pm 2.‘ >2- _, _ 31-3.; 165 |