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Show of Wdr Anti PeAce '" encreafed , Lands every where 'bega.n to Gen. I 3 .&: n. be divided , n0t among nation~ as before .. De p~tcis ad but among families too. But Wells • , ~ ~:~: ~~~;. thing i!l a thirfty Cow~try very nccdlary, munibuii vice & not {ufficing many ,every one made his Olymp!odo.. own by feifure. Thefe are the things, we rum apud Pho· arc taught out of facred hi !lory , agreeino tJum. well with what the Philofophers and Poets have faid of the firfl Hate of thinos common , and the difl:ribution of things .which followed : whofe tefl:imonies ~re "' .MarilibttD, produced by us in another"'" book. Hence '· 1 f• we learn, what was the caufe , fo1· which men-departed from the primitive commu· nion of things, firfl of movables,and then of immovables alfo :to wit,becaufe when, not content to feed upo11 that which gr~w of it felf, to dwe11 in caves, to go n:~,ked, or clad with rindes of trees, or skins of t ~aJe:n Yi· heath t , they had chofen a more exqui· tam Scmefin~ fite kind of life there was need- of indu· :naocc ruumra tne odbeis· ua ry , w h't c h eve'r y o~e t1... ld r · u,J.OU U!C .111 every fcriltit Proco- matter. And the reaton, why frutts were ~ius Gotthico· not brought. together for common ufe, ~m .1 • Adde was , becauie of the diihnce of places, V.11uu~ 11• I. whereby men were feparated; and more· nruv1um z.. . d I J, over , the defeet of Jufhce an ove; whereby it came to pafs , that neither in labour, nor in [pending of the fruits, was obferved due equality. WithaH we learn, how things went into propriety : not on· ly by aCt of the mind ( fo1· they could not know the thouPhts of one another , what every one w~ufd hav:e to be his own, chat t.hey 2Q3 they miglit abfl:ain from it , and many 'tv·d h mig~t ddire the fame thing : ) but by a de ~e ec~u~e~c c~r~am covenant , either expre[s , as by Al:tr:l & !'lcod1vdion; or tacit, as by occupation*. r:u~onob1spro- F r i' 1.. • d'd tU1It honosB · or 10 oon a:..c?mmumon 1 not pleafe tanni~ Seld;: them , and d1vd"ion was not made , it nus in Thnlafought to be fuppoied ap.1 agreement a- focr.atico. mongfl: all, that every one £hould have t Ciccr?: Ex proper to himfelf, , ..... hat he feifed on t· It ;;:~u'r.q.uz~{uum . d i. . h r: h J '9 ~ ,.t eo-u grante , ~lt "tcero, t at every one rum qute nat11• m_ay pr~fer hzm[e~f before another, in get- ra [t~mtnt comttng thmgs ufefull for hu· life, nature be- "1~ma, q~t~d. ing not repugnant hereunto *. To which cre~q; oblzgJt ul . b dd d h 0 . . . . qul[q; teneat. lS ~o e a e t at of ~mttltan * : On O!_lod fimiHm-thz. r condttton , that what is come into a tudine iJiufir:u: mans pflj[effion is his own, certainly what- a Chryftppo {oever is pojJejJedby right, is tak..;n away repena.de .lh.- b A d h · h d1o, ub1 cur- '} wrong. n t e anuenrs , w en they rendo licec called Ceres * Legiferam , and her rites vincere atlver~ h.efmophoria, fignified tpi~ , that by the farium, non div1ftol?' of lands came up ~he original of cum detE~c;!en-a certam new riohtt do.Schol1aftes :, • adArtc:m po~[. Hot.atii: ~•. ' «f1!adm6dum d~mta aut ager foze domino co11mmni!. eft oc6,upatus v~o Jam fJ!O,trim Jzt. y arro in Age modo: Terra eultu~; ctztifa at~~ b~a olm• partwtlatlm , ut Etruria Thufl·u , SaTJWiYtn Sabellil~ C1cero O!fic. 3· ~olon ~ DivitiiU habuiffi vetim, fed non 6llle pay. I(41J0n ~upzll»>. Cicero Oftic. 1. Ne' vero rei amptificat.io nemi~ti . ~ems vztupcranda e{t _, fid fugicnia fem~er i11juria. ,. Declam. I 3. Macrob~ Saturn- l1b. 3. c. I 2.. t Po}tJu•m ex agrorum di(mtiollt Jata [1471lJNra, Ita ServJus acl illud 4-· lEn. LeJ.ifirtt cereri. XV II. Sqm: |