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Show 6 nience or difconvenicnce of any thing to the rational and facial nature j a poJl eriori, if, though not with full certainty, yet very probably, we conclud~ th~t to be::~ point of Natural Law, whtch IS recciv·d forfuchamonofl: all, or at leaH b . the moll civil Nations. For .an umver-fal cffetl: h:nh an un1verfal caufe ; and of fb gcncr~ll an opin~on , the:·e _can hardly be any other cauic, but icn1c it "Argr1menrum; f~~f wh.ich is ca1led _common:· But I -vtritatu t{t all- i:l1d, wtth good n:alou, the. more ct' J'~itl ~mnibtt~ viil Nations ; f~r as the Philoiopher hath -vzdm. Sen~ it ""U'hat u nat1:ral F;C muft judo-e by * Non ettmm ' . . • . fl. • o patitm tft vana tho{e tn whom nature :s lcaJ• corntpt, tft (mttnua, ana not hy the depraved. 'ltlldti qtwn p1- . . pr1t; uta~r,mt. Hefiod. Terrul. !f!uod npud multos unum rnvc~~~~M~, none{l errlltum fed trnditrlm. * JuO:in.c0ll.cum Try~h.ExctfW .sltu qui ~b impt4rU Jpiritiblf1 abre,11ti & per malam. educatzo~em, 11'i~t1Ut4 prava & lt.-:..tt ini1u<14 cmmpti naturales not;ones perdulerMit.,. A· riftct. Pahc. 1. S' • vI. or Volunt ar)' I-! umar1C Law. THe other kind of Law is Voluntary, which ~ra.ws .its ~rig~n.al f~pm the will. And thts ts either Dtvme, or Hu, ·n:tne Law. We begin with Humane, be· c:ule more known. And this is either Civil, or oF larger extent, or of leis e~tent than Civil. The Civil Law is that which proceeds from the Civil power. The Civil Power is that which rules the Common-wealth. And a Common· · · wealth :fi"P~trt, '1 ·wealth is 'a foc;ie'ty ot <.Freemen imited for their oomt,1on Bthefic. The "ta~ of lels c!x.tent,'ano fhat ''come.s riot from tne ·ci-vil po'f"er, ~.~oug~ ful;Ji~ to . it, is . ~~ri- ~ ous, coilteio1mg die precef?t_s of F~tr,er~, Mafl:ers, -and iuch hk·e. ~hat ot larger extent is the Law of NatiL'DS, i.e. '¥:l1ich by the will of all, or .of ~ many nr,cioJ.lS lfo /A[IJII. ~. hath received 'force to ·oblige. 1 ad~c, of conlrtl'li.J.\.4~ many, btt~ t1e there is ·fca•rc<: £o'una any Law, befides the Natund, (which is. al.- {o called d1e taw of Na1tion's) ·cdmmon untoall. Y a, ofc-rirnd il1 'OI1e part ~f the world, "ti{crcis not th'cfame LJ.w of Nations as in an0ther : as \'\'c fluH ilie·w hereafter. ThisLaw of'Nat'10ns is pro-ved in the i1une m:tnr1er wi~h the un-written Ctv\11 L:tw, by continual til~ and the teHimonv (+ Jd'J!dl men. And tO this purpok Hiflori:-~ns ar,e of fiugu:ar p'rofir. · V 1 I. Voh~ht ary lHviN Law. VOlutltaryL:~.w Divine(as the words at firH lound inform us) is tl.ac which hath its 1·ife from the Wlll of God ; whereby it is dilhngui!hed fl'Om Natural Law, that may be alio, as we have faid, entituled Divine. Here hath pb.ce that indiHinCl: * fayino : God wilts ""Ana~aran~ ' ttnot, becau{e 'tis juft; but 'th· ju~, atJ~J.d Plttt.m ( •t .e. d uet. n .L. aw ) be cauJ'e G. od. n)illr .i t. Alex. This La~N was given ei~ber to mank i11<l, . R 4 0r |
