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Show of WJr ani/ P-t4&e ' t1.~s may be confederated one with anq. ther by a mofi clo[e league, and make 1 certain Syjfem. as Strabo ufes ~o fpeak; , )/ and yet, not any one of them ceales tG ·~ • · retain the State of a •perfe& City : whkh •• • r •• i's noted both by others, and by eAri-ftotle in more pl_accs than one. Well then, let a Citr, io underfl:ood as we have faid, be the common fubje8: of the high· "'li we;TII.:,x'W efl: Power : the proper tub JeCl: is a per· ~!'b14d6Gdalen,um Jon, one or ~ore, according to the Laws ~~ • • e P a d 11 f N . * cit. Hip. & an cunoms ~ · every atton . l'lar. · XLII. That the higheft Power l5 nor · alwaies i~ th~ ·people. HEre is firft to be rejeCted their opi. nion, who wiH have the l1ighefi Power every where , and without e~· ~eption, to be in the people , fo chat they · may reihain and punifh Kings, as ofr as they uie their power amifs: which opinion, .how many mifc~ it hath occafion' d, and may yet Jroduce, if it be th.rougbly entertain' , every wif~ man ices. We oppofe thefe Arguments a:o:1in£t it. ltis lawful fore· cvery·man ~o ~dditl: and yield himfelf into private fervirude to whom he plea· fEl.x.",l~'· 1"p-er fcth, as appears both out of ·the Hebrew Zt . •"C f'•Tf' - h \ [on. frt:f t~ c'i·vi L~w and the Roman . . Vv y t 1en m~1 ~ut.Gdl.l. '-./HOt any people; being atLtheir o~n dt!· ~·1~ ' po[e, give up· t~heQ'lfelves ·co- one or more, io as to uantCribe . the nght of go~er· p1n~ ., The-jrfl 87 nino them wholy co· their: Rulrr, no· par~ of drat right re~ained or refer~ed to chemfelves ? Nor may you fay; .that cannot be prefumed : for We do ~Ot • here enquire, what may be jmJumed Jn. ~ doubtful cafe, but what may be done in Gail. dt .Arpoint of right. In vain alfo at·e her~ al- re{l.l.6.u. cr leoed the incommodities that follow, feq. 1:) • or are poffible ; for what kind of Go-vernment foever you £hall frame in · your mind, you will never exclude all · · incomrnodities or hazards. You rnu!t be content, in e'Yery way, to take the good and evill *one among another. Now as there are many courfes of life, one more ,.. Aut h~tc cum excellent than another, and every man iflu ftmt IJabe,.. is at liberty -among many to choofe da, ho~t ~~a · ...., • r cum u mzt- whtch he doth moH affeCt; 10 may any tenda funt. people alfo make choice of what form Co•lJ. En ini· of government they pleafe :. neither is quaino111ni rt the riCTht co be meafured by the excel- acc~ ~ttnda prtt· 1e ncy ° Qf t 1li· S ' or that rro rm ( rro r d't vers tmerarln•lrfufims -beonnl4u-men have divers judpements hetcof) merati,. Cibut by their * will. And indeed there cero. may arife many caufes, why• rbe peo- ... At ·the fa~e pie may abditate from themtt:lves the tAime {lthe C~ry w ho 1 e n.g ht of comman d'm g, an d gt.v c t rottng1c1: d ac tp1tetr•lIs-it to another, 'Viz... becaufe being theErnpeto:.~r, brought into danger of 'their life, they that the De~ i;tll find no other wab to preferve them- crces of t?etr • r 1 'b r . 11 • h Senate m1ghc Ie1ves ; or ccau1e emg oppren Wlt not be of fo: cc · ' without the t:on!ent of t~ M~Llers of the Curilf ; when N otimberga defi.- re~ the plaiJl ~n~rary t~ing. ' G 4 wane |
