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Show . ace. t Ptutttreb re·think ()n Laws, nDw I 4m armt~t) . The" Prej4~e.· I J:ares lhis lay- In Chrifiian Writers many faytngs therefore, when he haq underta-ing of Pompry fc 0 f "7"' • h {i · 10 rhe Marner- oft he like fen e occur : ne o .l er· .ken to oppofe J ufttc~ , t at e pecJ-ti1! cs, thus: trtllians may fuffice inft~ad of all: ally of wHich we treat,. found no ~;:flv/;i11111~;;!{neceit, rigo.:tr, injuflice, are the pro. ftronger Argument than this: That rhc Laws to tu per b.ufin.effes of wars. All that _are uu en had eflahlijhed for them [elves tshwaot rdw ti?J r of this mtnd ' wtll (no doubt) • ofbtj ect variom Laws (with reJlfb ett to their cunius Iib.9. :_ agam ·US Uti/ity) acc~rding_ to their Cufloms; s, , dDtb ,.., ovo-throw <Vtn the Laws •f N ,. that in the 4nd am 1ng the Jam e UM m ofi en ttm. * Tcrerr. l11terta h~c, pt11 poflutts Comedylf: ch111Jged with the times: ThAt there lf11tione ttrtafatere' nihtto plt~ .a.~tU. ' . 'Ihtje Un· i6 no natural Rir;ht or Law ·, Btlt, ~uam fides operam ;, ~t Cltm rat1one tn{lltJztt~. t . o cer am that 4/l t.M en, and other living Crea-thi11gs, if yon fuk to order by certain tures, are carried hy the gr1idance of Rea jim, yor" d~ hut ehdeavour to he Nature to tfJings profitable for them: t ,. mad with Refljon. Whe_refore_, fee. Wherefore, there iJ no fjuflice; or, if ing in vain is any D1fputa~10n ~f there he any, it i! extreme F~!ly, Right, if there be no fuch thtng ~ tt be,aufe it hNrteth it filf, ta#ng fare will pertain to the commendatwn for the hcneftt of otherr. and defence of our work , that this But, what the P hilofopher faith very great Errour thould briefly be bere, and 1 the Poet followeth*, * ?{.ec. natma refelled. That ·Nature ctt.nnot ma-ke anv diR'e- pateft Jhr4flo fe~ Now, that we may not have to do renee ,t wt.x t rt.g ht and wrong/, mJuJ fc; i: fcluermna. e on·e ; with the Multitude,let us aUow them not be admitted. For, Man indeed an Advocate: and whom rather is an Animal, but exc.elling all the than Carneades, who had attained t.o refl:, and differing farther from that, which was the height of Ius th~m, .than they do from one an .. Academy, that he could put forth other: Y\'hich is confirmed by mad: c ftrength of his Eloquence for ny Achons proper to Mankind~ ErroU1· no le(s ~han Truth. He And, among thefe things that ar~ · ·- - -· - · there· proper to Man , is the Appetite of '* 3 So- |