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Show Chapag. ofCOMMON-WEALTH. ' ' out of a ho e to recover the fame again at their plealiire; 168 ram. of c 0 MM 0 N-WL‘ a 15TH. ‘ Cha'pgaro; promifes, {hall be maintained againfi them by forraign Common- he that is fubjeét to no Civill Law, finneth in all he does. againfi- his Conlcience, becaufe he has no other rule to follow but his own tea; wealths -, who in order to the good of their own Subjects let fli few occafions to weaken the eftate of their Neighbours. So was T max Becket Archbiihop of Canterhury, fupported vagainlt Henry the Se‘cond,by the Pope -, the fubjeétion of Ecclefiaitiques to the Common- can {e the Law is the publique Confcience, by which he hath already undertaken to be guided. Otherwife in fuch diverfity, as there is of private Confciences, which are but private opinions, the Common- ward" they rea on not Well; becaufe fuch as Will hold them to their {on -, yet it is not f0 with him that lives in a Common-wealth; be-'_ wealth, having been difpenitd with by William the Cohqheroar at his wealth mutt needs be diflraéted, and no man dare to obey the Sovei reception, when he took an Oath, not to infringe the liberty. of the Church. And {0' were the Barons, whole power was by Wt/ltam Ruflat (to have their helpin transferring the Sueceilion from his Elder raign Power, farther than it {hall fecm good in his own eyes. ' It hath been alfo commonly taught, That_Faz'th am! Sanflity, are ‘P'reteme of brother, to himfelie,) encreafed to a degree, inconfiftent With the Soveraign Power, maintained in their Rebellion againlt King (film, by the French. . Nor does this happen in Monarchy onely. For whereas the [tile of the antient Roman Common-wealth, was, The Senate, and People ofRome; neither Senate, nor People pretended to the whole Power; which firft caufed the (editions, of Tiheriza: Gratchw, cm: Gracehm, Lucite: Samminw, and others -, and afterwards the warres be- tween the Senate and the People, under Martha and Sy/la -, and again under Pampey'and Cafar, to the ExtinCtion of their Democraty, and the fetting up of Monarchy. ., The people of Athem boiund themfelves but from one onely Adhon -, which was, that no man On pain of death {hould propound the renewing of the warre for the Ifland of Salami; 5 And(yet thereby,if Solon had nor caufed to be given out he was mad) an afterwards in gefiure and habit of a mad-man, and in verfe, propounded it to the People that flocked about him, they had had an enemy perpetuall in readinefle, even at the gates of_their Citie ; fuch dammage, or lifts, are all Common-wealths forced to, that have their Power ncj ver {0 little limited. P1113"! rm 2: In the fecond place, I obferve the Defeafe: of a Common-wealth, judfimm of that proceed from the poyfon of feditious doctrines ; whereof one is, (you In That every private man pk fudge of Goodand Ew‘ll affiom. This lS Fur/l. true in the condition of meer Nature3 where there are no Civill Lawesgand alfo under Civill Government, in fuch cafes as are not determinedb the Law. But otherwife, it is manifeft, that the meaiure of Good]and Evillacftions, is the Civill Law, and the judge the Legiilator, who is alwayes Reprefentative of the Commonwealth. From this falfe doctrine, men are difpofed' to debate with themfelves, and difpute the commands of the Common-Wealth 3 and afterwards to obey, 0r dilobey them, as in their private judgements they iliall think fit. Whereby the Common-wealth is diitrazted and Weahened. Ii rranroia Another doctrine repugnant to Civill Society, is, that wharfoet'tf (0H t 1015!. a man does again]! his (Jim/timer, t5 Simie -, and it dependeth on the {li‘efumption ofmaking himle1t'1udge or Good and Evill.For a mans («onlcfimcci and his judgement is the fame thing -, and as the judgf‘ mcnt, 10 alfo the Confcience may be erroneous. Therefore, though not ta he attained hy Study and Rea/072, hut hy japernamra/l Infpirafion, Infpiratma. or Infra/ion. which granted, I fee not why an man flaould render a reafon ofhis Faith 5 or why every Chriltian iould not be alfo a Prophet ; or why any man ihould take the Law of his Country, rather than his own In piration, for the rule of his action. And thus wee fall again into the fault of taking upon us to Judge of Good and Evill ; or to inakerjudges of it, fuch private men as pretend to be fupernaturally In pired, to the DiffolutiOn of all Civill Government, Faith comes by hearing, and hearing by thofe accidents, which guide us into the prel‘ence of them that {peak to us 5 which aCCidents are all Contrived by God Almighty -, and yet are no: fupernaturall, but one? ly, for the great number of them that concurre to every effect, unobfervable. Faith, and Sancrity, are indeed not very frequent, but yet they are not Miracles,butbroughtto .iife‘ by education, difcipline, correCtion, and other naturall'wayes, ywhich God worketh them‘ in his cleft, at their time as he thinketh'flt. And thef‘e three opinions, pernicious to Peace and Government , have in this part of the world, proceeded chiefly from the tongues, and pens of unlearned Diyines; who joyning the words of Holy Scripture together, otherwile than is agreeable to realon, do what they can, to make men‘ think, that Siinetity and Natural] Reafon, cannot Rand together. A fourth opinion, repugnant to the nature of a Common-wealth, Shiv. is this, That he that hath the Saver/rig" Power, zir flthjee? to the Civill 'l" 5W" ' Latter. It is true,that Soveraigns are all fiibjeét to the Lawes of "'37"??? Nature ,becaufe fuchlawes be Divine, and cannot b any man, or‘ ' . Common-wealth be abrogated. But to thoie. Lawes which the Sove- [0 L 13'}. La ver. ; reign himi'elt‘e, that is, which the Common-wealth maketh, he is not lubjcet. For to be fubjeetto Lawes,is to‘be fubjeétt'o the Common- u'talrhghat is to the Soveraign Reprefcntarive, that is to hiitilEl f'eg which is not fubjee'tion,but free-dome from the Lawes‘.Which errour, Decaufe it (merit the Liiwes above the Soveraign, fetteth alto ajudg e above him, and a Power to puniih him -, which is to make anew S‘o'.‘:raign -, and again for the lame reafon athii‘d, to punifli the fet‘ond ;' aid to continually without end, to the Confulion, and Diflblution of Lt Common-wealth. A Fif hdoitriiic, that tendethito the'Diffolution of a Common-'i All-775115";tvealrh,is, That e'very private man has an ah/hli tle Propriety ifl hi}; of «Yb/ob!!!" Wadi", fm‘hm exeludeth the Right of the Saver/11g". Everyman has ‘1'"." 7‘0 '9 .naeed al'ropriety that excludes the Right of every other Subject: Sh‘l'f‘fil" A.nd he has I. .. onelyfrom . . the Soveraign Power 5 Without the prote- (‘ch |