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Show 174 Putz. OfCOMMoN-WEALTH. 6114.11.29. pun. OfCOMMON-WEALTH. Chap. 30. I 75 u b the Peo le aaaini‘t the Senate, having won to himfelfe the ffieégiohs of his firm): made himfelfe Mailer, both of Senate and People. And this proceeding of popular, and ambitious men, is Exaflim greatneffe of plain Rebellion, and may be refembled to the effects of Witchraft. -~ CHA P. XXX. c Another infirmity of a Common-wealth , is the immoderate of MO? F ICE of tbeSu‘chign reatneife of a Town, when it is able to furniih out of its own Cir- a Town, multitude ofCor- cuit, the number, and expence of a great Army : As alfo the great number of Corporations; which are as it were many leiret Com paratiom. mon-wealths in the bowels of a greater, like wormes in the entrayles Liberty of of a naturall man. To which may be added,the Liberty of Difputino difpuimg .1- againft abiolute Power, by pretenders to Politicall'Prudence ; whim gain/f Sat/ereign Power. v - He 0 P-F 1 c a of the. Soverai n, ( be itaMonarch, or an ~I; . , - Ailembly,) confifteth in the en , for which he was trufted {#25:}:2, with the Soveraign Power, namely the procuration of the Good of the fizfety of the people; to which he is obliged by the Law of Trap/e. though bred for the moit part in the Lees of the people 3 yet anima- Nature, and to render an account thereof to God, the Author ofthat ted by Falfe Doét tines, are perpetually medling With the fundamentall Lawes, to the moleitation of the Common-wealth 3 like the little Wornies, which Phyficians call Ajmrides. We may further adde, the in fatiable appetite, or Eulimia, of enlarging Dominion 5 with the incurable Wumzd: thereby many times received from the enemy; And the Wem, of ununited conqueits, which are many times a burthen, and with leffe danger loft, than kept, Asalfo the Lethargy of Bait, and Confumption of Riot and Vain Expenoe, Diffolmian of the C amman-wealth. Rrprrfefltatz've. Lafily, when in a warre (forraign, or intefiine, ), the enemies get a finallViétory ,‘fo as (the forces of the Common-wealth keeping the field no lon er) the re is no farther protection of Subjects in their 10yaly\,thenist eCommon-wealth DissOva, and every man at liberty to proreé't himfelfe by inch courfes as his own difcretion {hall {u gefi unto him. For the Soveraign, is the publique Soule, Law, and to none but him. But by Safety here, is not meant a bare l'reiErvation, but alfo all other Contentments of life, which every man by lawfulllnduflry, without danger, or hurt to the Commonwealth, ihall acquire to himfelfe. And this is intended fliould be done, not by care applyed to Indi- Byjnflrsflia vidualls, further than their roteétion from injuries, when they ihall 0" 0'" Law". complain ,but bya gener lProvidence, contained in publique Inflruétion, both of Doetrine, and Example ; an°d in the making, and executing of good Lawes3 to which individuall perfons may apply their own cafes. And becaufe, if the clientiall Rights of Soveraignty (fpecified Againf} the before in the eighteenth Chapter) be taken away, the Common- dwiofe 50- wealth is thereby diifolved,and every man returneth into the condi- "We? ‘0 tion, and calamity of a warre with every other man, ( which is the "if."‘f'T'f/‘é' "'5' greateft evill that can happen in this life -, )' it is the Office of the So- ill/:71"?! 5 g'itvin lg.ife and Motion to the Common-wealth7 Which expiring, the em ers are governed by it no more, than the Carcaile of a man,by his departed ( thouoh Immortall) Soule. For though the Right of a veraign, to maintain [hole Rights entire, and confequently againft "finiainfhis duty, Pil‘li, to transferre to another, or to lay from himi‘elfe any ° " i of them. For he that dei‘erteth the Means, deleneth the Ends ; and Soveraign Monarclh cannot be exting-uiihed by the act of anOIher; he deferteth the Means,that being the Soveraign, acknowledgeth yet the Obligation of the members may, For he that wants protecti- himfelfe fiibjec‘t to the Civill Lawes -, and tenounceth the Power of on, ma feek it any where 5 and when he hath it, is obliged ( without Supremejudicatiire; of of making Warre, or Peace by his own Authority, or of judging of the Neceflities of the Common- frauduhlznt pretence of having fubmitted himfelfi: out of fear,) to proteét his Proteétion as lon as he is able. But when the Power of an Aiiembly is once fuppre ed, the Right of the fame periiheth utterly ,becaufe the Affembl it felfe is extinct; and confcquently: there is no poiiibility for t e Soveraignty to re-enter. wealth -, or of levying Mony, and Souldiers, when, and as much as in his own confcience he ihali judge neceiiary -, or ofmaking Officers, and Miniiters both of Warre,and Peace ; or ofappointing Teachers, and examining what Doctrines are conformable, or contrary to the Defence, Peace, and Good of the people. Secondly, it is againft his 07' mt fa ,C»: Duty, to let the people be ignorant, or mif-informed of the grounds, the prop/c" and reafons of t of: his eflentiall Rights -, becaufe thereby men are WE!" ""5 CHAP. eaiie to be feduced, and drawn to rcfii'c him, when the Common- WW'J' "in Wealth ihall require their ufe and exei'cile. mm" Andthe grounds of thefe Rights, have the rather need to be diligently,and truly taught; becaufe they cannot be maintained by an ' CiVill Law, or terrour of legal] puniihment. For aCivill Law, that ihall forbid Rebellion, ( and inch is all reliftance to the eiientiali Rights 0!: Soveraignty, ) is not (as a Civill Law) any obligation, l‘tit |