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Show nr Thefecorid Booke of the first part ~ Caap. AG.4s G HAP. ,5 Alfo priuate contracts among Merchants and other cq do - ten - the fame df lawes.: But law.commonly and properly,is taken fox ; I ig it rule; pre crib ja necefflary meane,for the good of a Common-wealth, or Cini entemmunitie. The cel, to-wit, the cOmandements ofTyrants, &e.which haue not pbeetimaidn good nh | end, but being veges inique, arcby Thomas called vielensiie mee poem deges ; ‘ thers pulfionsthandawes: And whatlocucris notiuft, S. Auguftine doth not allow For:lawes howfoeiier!eftablithed: for he calls theméaiqua beminumconstituta, gue ec care diten dt, wee patanda: unt; The uninfl conflitations of men whith are ancither ta bee ee Arift Ethic. thought lawes: Bor, faith Ariflotie; Legalia tufla fant fattina, & conferuatina feelicit Capt. Iait -lawes arethe workers anapreferners of happineffe ; becaufe by Bhests Wearedir Platoin Dial. ade Leg, Rierem, 5.5. Pfalz; Lia eda ad vitare quictatm, toaquict life,accordingto.Cicero ; Yea, tolife enerlattins, according x anding ofthe prudent: andtherule ofright and wrong, Foras a rightline is called! dexfui curuithe demonftrance ofit felfe,and ofthe craoked's fois the law,theindge and meafare ofright and wrong. E M. Hooker calsthe Lawa directiue tuletogoodnefieof operation: dnd thoughlaw j @s touchin confiftin ynderftanding :; Come/udit tamen aie our will, Theword, Iws'ts alfo dinerfly taken, 4 Exod.s2,xr. ¥Reg.2.43. otherpatticu indiniduals ofhumane lawesto theirinfihite and horrib lars'aré drawn: legning the lé'confirfion. tEternallop Oncreated: : ; The written isihe law ofMofes Written, alfo double , The Gofpel, {, -Disine Sp Materall,' Jo [arate an As the Dodlrine and Religion of Law tno. ; Lawis the rule oflife, commanding what tofollow, andwhst tofbax: or Lex Cf omninws dininarum c& humasaruwm rerum Regina ; Lavy ts the Qucere ot Prince(fe of things both humane and.dinuine. But this defcription is grounded vpontheoinionofineuitable fate. Uaw'is thevery wifedome of Nature: the reafonand vader forcominon right: {ometimefor the lawitfelf ile, gentiums Ifidere diftinguitheth the:two general words Im and FA whereof su, faith he, hath reference to Men; Fasto Togocouer another mansfieldyis permnitted.by God. Farlex diwina,slus lex hums. Gods lawynor byimahs sandtherfore in athing ourof controucrfie, Hirigs/ vfed both thefe Words: as Fis Griura finunt; GO" and men permit, The word Jue or Right, ‘is derived taken fron the old fubftant Now abiddingor cowimandement» or perhor ne: aps fromthe Greeke tac Whichiue isthenameot!* |, pétersorof the Latine genitine cafe Joniss Becaufea sthe Scriptur fpeak e ess\ the indgemett és'Gods, Boras itis. certaine that ius-inra vducn came of louis-iurandum, for fo we ind! written'in Neniws out ofthe ancient,i n:whichfenfe the Scripture calls iv-i vramentaml™ howe ) foalfowe mayfay, that Jus came OfYous, quie louis of« beca ufe-as GodistheAt thor,and Patterne,amd Maintainer of right , foalfo imhis Fitcegerents the Atagifirates y isthe pronouncer andexecutor of right. Of this Zw the dure, and luftitiaa tuflo;, The right gives mame tethe righ inftate denominated, 1#44* teous and inflice takes her nai? From the inft, §.¥; : Vt becaufe lawes aremanifold, atid: that kinde hath a/properandpeculiar B dofidition; inagreeth with orders firht tocuery dinide-and diftinguith thei Tmeane 5 thofe foits of lawes> from whencedl! tenand publithed, all men might readethem, and behold in them wheieto they. were bound. The other Etymology, a ligando, is noleffeagtecable with the nature of a Laws whencein the Sctiptureitis called alfo.a yoke, anda bands as confreperunt ing witty dire perunt vixcula: they hauc broken the yoke, they haue brokenthie bands, And in theiecond P/slme,Dirumpamus vincula corume>Proyctamus anobisfuncs ipformim, Letvs breik their bands infunder,and caff away their cordsfrom vs. 10 The Coucmantitis called,becaufe ofthe conditional promifes ofGod: andbecauleof Gods peoples voluntary {ubmifsion ofthemfelues vntoit : for which word the Septnae gintyand the Epifile tothe Hebrewes, vfethe word duecdnun,a Teitament-onlaft wit: which nameit hath, becaufe it isnot otherwifeeffe@uall for ourfaluation j but in refpedt of the death of the Teftator ; for without the death ofthe Deftator,the Teftament is ofno §.V: Of thé defiaition of Lawes, andof the Lavy eternall; or Internal. force: as Hebr.9.17. it is {aid, Teflamentam in mortuisratam eft. ‘The Hebvewes call thelaw Therab ofteaching, becanfeeucry manis thereby taught his dutie; bothto GodandMen.:Theereekes call it Nomos of diftributing, becanleit diftributeth to cuery man his. owne due ;the power of the lawis the powerof God: lu ftice being an attribute propervnto Godhimfelfe. Imperium legis iusperium Dei eft ; The 3° reigne ofthe law,is the reigne of God. Law in generallis thus defined by the Philofophers: Lexie vite regula, pracipiens que Suntfequenda, cp quefugienda Deutrry. 2 Chre.t9.6. qt Pignaroten the Scriptures. Forthe endofthe Law,faith Plato, is God and his wor thip Finitleais Deses & cultus tins, Lex,or theLawis fo called by the Latines a legendo,o 1 a/teando,of:ree ding ot binding: Leges quia lee cradpopulam latefaith Varro; Forafter L awes we re wait ‘ofthe Hiftorie ofthe World. twoparts. . Crnppritten. the Patriarkes before the written Law of Mofes, whichfome callCabala, Lawes pofitine fEcclefinfticall fedor ofad- | or tmpofed, ex. plicating, ana dition\com-< perfecting montvCal- ledPojitie. the Law ofNature, (are dowble, F Humane which is'al-% t/o twofold, Which Cicero in his fe cond beoke oftpucntionk calleth Tus legitimum,* Ainided inte the : and 1 iSccalar, t aisao er thé Lawes of Castome and Urfe The law eternal! is thus defined by Thoms. Lex eterna ef eternus dininefapientiecon= oe A ceptns,fecundum quodordinatur adSubtruationem reriim ab ipfoprecegtitarams The eteraall®21> PX Yawis the cteraall conceit of Gods wifedome as it ts referredto thevoueriment of thinzsfore knomne by him/elfe; Or; Lex aterwa eifumme atque.c terna ratio diniwefaptentie': quaterus rh, 4:36.076.%, ves omnes ad deflinatosfines ita dirizit, utilis iuxta conditionems: ipfarum mbdawm aliquem ne. ce/sitatis diferat.. It is the high and eteruallresfon ofdiuine [apience: as it direleth allthings 39 tzJuchfort to their proper ends , impofing akinde of mece/séty according' to thetrfenerall ng. tures, or conditions. Now the difference lieth inthis ftanding direétsall thefe to their proper ends;{oitis } ‘That a the famedinine vnderfetha neceffity according to the naturs ofall things called pronidence:'but as it impowhichit dire@s,fo isiit calleda law: Ofthiseternall law Cicero took knowledge; when this mariner. :Erat ratio perfetia,rerum watura, Grad in his booke ofLawes, he wrotein, ree faciendum impellers Ca delidte ANICAMS ; Guce OR tum incipit lex Cffecum firipta ef : fed tum cums orta est. Orte-autem fiaul eft cum mente dinina: gquamobrem lex: vera atque princeps, apta ad iubenduim > ad uetandums, ratiocf rectafummi Touts; That perfec reafon and mature of. things incouraging or impelling torightfullactions, and callinevs backe fromeuill, did not (faith hee) then begin to beew Lavy 40 when it was written : bit whenit had being Being and beginning it had together with dinine viderflanding, avd therefare atrue lawand a fitPriaceffeto command andforbidss the right reafon ofthe moft high God.. This eternal] law, (ifwe confider itin-Godor as God,jis alWales one and the fame; the nattire of God being uets obieéts, fo the reafon.of man findes it diuers moft imple: butasitis referredto did and-manifold.Ital{o feemeth one law in refpect ofthings neceflary, as the motions ofthe t eauens ; ftabilitie of the earth, 8c) but it appeareth otherwifeto things contingent : anotherlawto men, anoth er to other creatures, hautin g life, and to all thofe that be inanit iate. By this eternal lawall thingsare direct ed,as by the counfaile and prouidence <arrom this law all lawes are deriued, as from therule Vhiuerfall : and theret of: God: o referred, #°as the opera tion ofthe fecondto the firtt The eternall,and the diuine Law » differ only in confideration ; the eternall directing hod: dug." more largel g y; as welleuery creature, to their proper andna turall ends, as it dotlyman tohis fapernat urall: but the dinine law toafupernaturall endonl y : thenatur mane ot temporall is alfo thence drawn ; inthatit hath the forme of right reaton : from which ifit differ, itisthen impofiti oiniqua, allJaw ig thence der tued, but an effect of the eternall : as it werea ftreame from this fountaine; The Lawhu botroweththe name ofalaw. a wicked impofition: and only : , Lo this eternali lawall things are fubieted, as well Angels and Men, asallother ct catures, |