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Show ‘ , Ivar ta Dif- "@355 of COMMON-W131! LTH. Part2. may fitly be compared to the Violation of the fecond of the ten Commandements. , Thirdly, in confequence to this, they ought to be informed, how pme the 50wrung» great a fault it is, to fpeak evill of the Soveraign Reprefentative, 1'ower ; his Power,or any way to ufe his Name irreverently, whereby he may be b‘rou ht into Contempt with his People, and their Obedience ( in ( whether One man,or an Aifembly of men; ) or to argue and difpute which t it: fafety of the Common-wealth confifleth) flackened. Which doétrine the third Commandement by refemblance pointeth, to. Ami to have (Layer jet 4partta [earn Xheir D112} ,- 1m, mt Ira-.5 an» if": fiegfimmymfiymvgg H" I78 _ Fourthly,feeing peOple cannot be taught this,nor when 'tis taught, remember it, nor after one generation pait, fo much as know in whom the Soveraign Power is placed,without fetting a part from their ordinary labour, fome certain times, in which they may attend thofe that are appointed to initruétthem, It is neceffai'y that fome fuch times be determined, wherein they may aifemble together, and (after prayers and praifes given to God, the Soveraion of Sove- raigns ) hear thofe their Duties told them, and the Pofitive Lawes, fuch as generally concern them all, read and expounded , and be put n in mind of the Authority that maketh them Lawes. To this end had ._-. the fewer every feventh day, a Sahhath, in which the Law was read and expounded , and in the folemnity whereofthey were put in mind, that their King was God 5 that having created the world in fix dayes, he relied the feventh day -, and by their rei'ting on it from their la- bour, that that God was their King, which redeemed them from their fervile, and painfull labour in Egypt, and gave them a time, after they had rejoyced in God, to take jo alfo in themfelves, by lawfull recreation. So that the firit Table 0 the Commandements, is fpent all, in fetting down the fumme of Gods abfolute Power 5 not onely as God, but as King by pact, (in peculiar) of the Jewes -, and may therefore give light, to thofe that have Soveraign Power conferred on them by the confent ofmen, to fee what doctrine they Ought to teach their Subjects. And to Homm their Pflrthtir, And becaufe the firfl ini'truétion of Children, dependeth on the care of their Parents ; it is neceifarythat they ihould be obedient to them, whileft they are under their tuition -, and not onely fo, but that alfo afterwards ( as gratitude requireth,) they acknowledge the benefit of theireducation, by externall fignes of honour. To which end they are to be taught, that originally the Father of every man was alfo his Soveraign Lord, with power over him of life and death; and that the Fathers of families, when by initituting a Common~ wealth, they refioned that abfolute Power, yet it was never intended, they ihould lofe the honour due unto them for their education. For to relinquifh fuch right, was not neceffary to the Inititution of Sove- l‘aign Power 5 nor wouldthere be any reafon, why any man fhould deiire to have children, or take the care to nouriihand infiruét them, if they were afterwards to have no other benefit from them, than from other men. And this accordeth with the fifth Comman» dement. ' . A gain, C/up.30~ I79 OfCOMMON-WEAL TH. 2, : Am ain,every Soveraign Ought to caufe ]_u{tiee to be taught, Which mm. (coniiiiing in raking from no man what l§vhl$ ). is as much aSto fay,to I" ‘1‘": L! caufe men to be taught not to deprive their Neighbours, by "016"", [J 2 or fraud, of any thing which by the Soveraign Authority 13 then-5.0f things held in propriety, thofe that are dearefl to a man are his Own ' life,& limbs-,and in the next degree, in mofl men,)thofe that concern conjugall aifeétion,and after them riches and means of livmg.There- 'fore the People are to be taught, to abfiain from violence to one anothers perfon,by private revengesfirom violation of conjugall honour; and from forcible rapine, and fraudulent furreption of one anothers goods. For which purpofe alfo it is neceffary they be {hewed the evill confequences of falfe Judgement, by corruption either of jud- ges or Witneifes, whereby the diitinétion ofpropriety is taken aWay, and jufiiee becomes of no effeél: all which things are intimated in the fixth, feventh, eighth, and ninth Commandements. Laflly, they are to be taught, that net onely the unjuit faifts, but findwdmfi' the defignes and intentions to do them, (though by accident hin- "1'" Mm" dred,) are Injui‘tice 5 which confif'teth in the pravity of the will, as 2:0»: the well as in the irregularity of the act. And this is the intention of the tenth Commandement, and the fumme of the fecond Table ; which m' is reduced all to this one Commandement of mutuall Charity, Thou flmlt [we thy neighhour 44 thy fcéfe .- as the fumme of the firfi Table is reduced to the low of God -, whom they had then newly received as their King. V > 'As for the Means,and Conduits, by which the peeple may receive The up of ' this Inflrufiion, wee are to fearch, by what means f0 many Opinions, "LiUéYJT‘WI, contrary to the peace of Man-kind, upon weak and falfe Principles, have neverthelefle been fo deepiy rooted in them. I mean thofe whichl have in the precedent Chapter fpecified : as That men {hali Judaeof what is lawfull and unlawful], not by the Law it felfe but by their own Confciences ; that is‘to fay, by their own private Jiidgements: That Subjects finne in obeying the Commands of the Common-wealth, unleffe they themfelVes have firft judged them to be lawfull: That their Propriety in their riches is fuch as to exclude the Dominion, which the Common-wealth hath river the fame That it is lawfull for Subjeé‘ts to kill fueh, as they-call Tyrants: That theSoveraign Power may be divided, and the like; which come to be inflilled into the People by this means. They whom neceflity or covetoufneffe keepeth attent on their trades, and labour - and tliey on theother fide, whom fuperfluity, 0r floth carrieth after: their fen: fuall pleafures, ( which two forts of men take up the greateit part of an-'kind,) being diverted from the deep meditation, which the ng ltlarni of truth3 not onely in the matter of Naturall Jui‘tice , but a 10 of all other SCiences neceifarilv requireth receive the Notions pf tflIiCir duty, chiefly from Divinesu in the Pulpit, and partly from lit 0f thfiltifieighbours, or familiar acquaintance as havincr the FJCUIW 9f dilCourfing readily, and plaufibly ieem ivifer and getted lfirvriC in cafes of Law, and Conference, thanatliemie1ves. Andi Iii; . nines, and fuch others as make ihew of Learning, derive their A 8- knowledge |