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OF OTHER lawes  OF nature  16

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The Designes Of The Authors Of The Religion Of The Heathen And therefore the first Founders, and Legislators of Common-wealths amongst the Gentiles, whose ends were only to keep the people in obedience, and peace, have in all places taken care; First, to imprint in their minds a beliefe, that those precepts which they gave concerning Religion, might not be thought to proceed from their own device, but from the dictates of some God, or other Spirit; or else that they themselves were of a higher nature  than mere mortalls, that their lawes  might the more easily be received: So Numa Pompilius pretended to receive the Ceremonies he instituted amongst the Romans, from the Nymph Egeria: and the first King and founder of the Kingdome of Peru, pretended himselfe and his wife to be the children of the Sunne: and Mahomet, to set up his new Religion, pretended to have conferences with the Holy Ghost, in forme of a Dove

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These Articles, are they, which otherwise are called the lawes  of nature : whereof I shall speak more particularly, in the two following Chapters

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OF THE FIRST AND SECOND NATURALL lawes , AND OF CONTRACTS Right Of nature  What The RIGHT OF nature , which Writers commonly call Jus Naturale, is the Liberty each man hath, to use his own power, as he will himselfe, for the preservation of his own nature ; that is to say, of his own Life; and consequently, of doing any thing, which in his own Judgement, and Reason, hee shall conceive to be the aptest means thereunto

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OF OTHER lawes  OF nature  The Third Law Of nature , Justice From that law of nature , by which we are obliged to transferre to another, such Rights, as being retained, hinder the peace of Mankind, there followeth a Third; which is this, That Men Performe Their Covenants Made: without which, Covenants are in vain, and but Empty words; and the Right of all men to all things remaining, wee are still in the condition of Warre

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These are the lawes  of nature , dictating Peace, for a means of the conservation of men in multitudes; and which onely concern the doctrine of Civill Society

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A Rule, By Which The Laws Of nature  May Easily Be Examined And though this may seem too subtile a deduction of the lawes  of nature , to be taken notice of by all men; whereof the most part are too busie in getting food, and the rest too negligent to understand; yet to leave all men unexcusable, they have been contracted into one easie sum, intelligible even to the meanest capacity; and that is, "Do not that to another, which thou wouldest not have done to thy selfe;" which sheweth him, that he has no more to do in learning the lawes  of nature , but, when weighing the actions of other men with his own, they seem too heavy, to put them into the other part of the ballance, and his own into their place, that his own passions, and selfe-love, may adde nothing to the weight; and then there is none of these lawes  of nature  that will not appear unto him very reasonable

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The lawes  Of nature  Oblige In Conscience Alwayes, But In Effect Then Onely When There Is Security The lawes  of nature  oblige In Foro Interno; that is to say, they bind to a desire they should take place: but In Foro Externo; that is, to the putting them in act, not alwayes

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For he that should be modest, and tractable, and performe all he promises, in such time, and place, where no man els should do so, should but make himselfe a prey to others, and procure his own certain ruine, contrary to the ground of all lawes  of nature , which tend to Natures preservation

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And again, he that shall observe the same Lawes towards him, observes them not himselfe, seeketh not Peace, but War; & consequently the destruction of his nature  by Violence

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The Laws Of nature  Are Eternal; The lawes  of nature  are Immutable and Eternall, For Injustice, Ingratitude, Arrogance, Pride, Iniquity, Acception of persons, and the rest, can never be made lawfull

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Now the science of Vertue and Vice, is Morall Philosophie; and therfore the true Doctrine of the lawes  of nature , is the true Morall Philosophie

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OF THE CAUSES, GENERATION, AND DEFINITION OF A COMMON-WEALTH The End Of Common-wealth, Particular Security The finall Cause, End, or Designe of men, (who naturally love Liberty, and Dominion over others,) in the introduction of that restraint upon themselves, (in which wee see them live in Common-wealths,) is the foresight of their own preservation, and of a more contented life thereby; that is to say, of getting themselves out from that miserable condition of Warre, which is necessarily consequent (as hath been shewn) to the naturall Passions of men, when there is no visible Power to keep them in awe, and tye them by feare of punishment to the performance of their Covenants, and observation of these lawes  of nature  set down in the fourteenth and fifteenth Chapters

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Which Is Not To Be Had From The Law Of nature : For the lawes  of nature  (as Justice, Equity, Modesty, Mercy, and (in summe) Doing To Others, As Wee Would Be Done To,) if themselves, without the terrour of some Power, to cause them to be observed, are contrary to our naturall Passions, that carry us to Partiality, Pride, Revenge, and the like

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Therefore notwithstanding the lawes  of Nature, (which every one hath then kept, when he has the will to keep them, when he can do it safely,) if there be no Power erected, or not great enough for our security; every man will and may lawfully rely on his own strength and art, for caution against all other men

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And in all places, where men have lived by small Families, to robbe and spoyle one another, has been a Trade, and so farre from being reputed against the Law of nature , that the greater spoyles they gained, the greater was their honour; and men observed no other lawes  therein, but the lawes  of Honour; that is, to abstain from cruelty, leaving to men their lives, and instruments of husbandry

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For if we could suppose a great Multitude of men to consent in the observation of Justice, and other lawes  of nature , without a common Power to keep them all in awe; we might as well suppose all Man-kind to do the same; and then there neither would be nor need to be any Civill Government, or Common-wealth at all; because there would be Peace without subjection

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But the question lyeth now in the state of meer nature ; where there are supposed no lawes  of Matrimony; no lawes  for the Education of Children; but the Law of Nature, and the naturall inclination of the Sexes, one to another, and to their children

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For in the condition of Meer nature , where there are no Matrimoniall lawes , it cannot be known who is the Father, unlesse it be declared by the Mother: and therefore the right of Dominion over the Child dependeth on her will, and is consequently hers

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For the lawes  of nature , which consist in Equity, Justice, Gratitude, and other morall Vertues on these depending, in the condition of meer nature  (as I have said before in the end of the 15th Chapter,) are not properly lawes , but qualities that dispose men to peace, and to obedience

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But the Right of nature , that is, the naturall Liberty of man, may by the Civill Law be abridged, and restrained: nay, the end of making lawes , is no other, but such Restraint; without the which there cannot possibly be any Peace

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And as those from whom nature , or Accident hath taken away the notice of all lawes  in generall; so also every man, from whom any accident, not proceeding from his own default, hath taken away the means to take notice of any particular Law, is excused, if he observe it not; And to speak properly, that Law is no Law to him

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Unwritten lawes  Are All Of Them lawes  Of nature  And first, if it be a Law that obliges all the Subjects without exception, and is not written, nor otherwise published in such places as they may take notice thereof, it is a Law of nature 

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The lawes  of nature  therefore need not any publishing, nor Proclamation; as being contained in this one Sentence, approved by all the world, "Do not that to another, which thou thinkest unreasonable to be done by another to thy selfe

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The Law of nature  excepted, it belongeth to the essence of all other Lawes, to be made known, to every man that shall be obliged to obey them, either by word, or writing, or some other act, known to proceed from the Soveraign Authority

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The Interpretation Of The Law Dependeth On The Soveraign Power The Legislator known; and the lawes , either by writing, or by the light of nature , sufficiently published; there wanteth yet another very materiall circumstance to make them obligatory

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For it is not the Letter, but the Intendment, or Meaning; that is to say, the authentique Interpretation of the Law (which is the sense of the Legislator,) in which the nature  of the Law consisteth; And therefore the Interpretation of all lawes  dependeth on the Authority Soveraign; and the Interpreters can be none but those, which the Soveraign, (to whom only the Subject oweth obedience) shall appoint

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The Authenticall Interpretation Of Law Is Not That Of Writers The Interpretation of the lawes  of nature , in a Common-wealth, dependeth not on the books of Morall Philosophy

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That which I have written in this Treatise, concerning the Morall Vertues, and of their necessity, for the procuring, and maintaining peace, though it bee evident Truth, is not therefore presently Law; but because in all Common-wealths in the world, it is part of the Civill Law: For though it be naturally reasonable; yet it is by the Soveraigne Power that it is Law: Otherwise, it were a great errour, to call the lawes  of nature  unwritten Law; whereof wee see so many volumes published, and in them so many contradictions of one another, and of themselves

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For though a wrong Sentence given by authority of the Soveraign, if he know and allow it, in such lawes  as are mutable, be a constitution of a new Law, in cases, in which every little circumstance is the same; yet in lawes  immutable, such as are the Lawes of nature , they are no lawes  to the same, or other Judges, in the like cases for ever after

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The things that make a good Judge, or good Interpreter of the lawes , are, first A Right Understanding of that principall Law of nature  called Equity; which depending not on the reading of other mens Writings, but on the goodnesse of a mans own naturall Reason, and Meditation, is presumed to be in those most, that have had most leisure, and had the most inclination to meditate thereon

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Also, Unwritten Customes, (which in their own nature  are an imitation of Law,) by the tacite consent of the Emperour, in case they be not contrary to the Law of nature , are very lawes 

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I conclude therefore, that in all things not contrary to the Morall Law, (that is to say, to the Law of Nature,) all Subjects are bound to obey that for divine Law, which is declared to be so, by the lawes  of the Common-wealth

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False Teachers Mis-interpreting The Law Of nature  Secondly, by false Teachers, that either mis-interpret the Law of nature , making it thereby repugnant to the Law Civill; or by teaching for lawes , such Doctrines of their own, or Traditions of former times, as are inconsistent with the duty of a Subject

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But the want of diligence to enquire, shall not be considered as a want of means; Nor shall any man, that pretendeth to reason enough for the Government of his own affairs, be supposed to want means to know the lawes  of nature ; because they are known by the reason he pretends to: only Children, and Madmen are Excused from offences against the Law Naturall

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" But because he is mortall, and subject to decay, as all other Earthly creatures are; and because there is that in heaven, (though not on earth) that he should stand in fear of, and whose lawes  he ought to obey; I shall in the next following Chapters speak of his Diseases, and the causes of his Mortality; and of what lawes  of nature  he is bound to obey

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For by the nature  of their Institution, they are designed to live, as long as Man-kind, or as the lawes  of nature , or as Justice it selfe, which gives them life

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" This is true in the condition of meer nature , where there are no Civill lawes ; and also under Civill Government, in such cases as are not determined by the Law

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Subjecting The Soveraign Power To Civill lawes  A fourth opinion, repugnant to the nature  of a Common-wealth, is this, "That he that hath the Soveraign Power, is subject to the Civill lawes 

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" It is true, that Soveraigns are all subjects to the lawes  of nature ; because such lawes  be Divine, and cannot by any man, or Common-wealth be abrogated

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Publique Charity And whereas many men, by accident unevitable, become unable to maintain themselves by their labour; they ought not to be left to the Charity of private persons; but to be provided for, (as far-forth as the necessities of nature  require,) by the lawes  of the Common-wealth

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And the same Law, that dictateth to men that have no Civil Government, what they ought to do, and what to avoyd in regard of one another, dictateth the same to Common-wealths, that is, to the Consciences of Soveraign Princes, and Soveraign Assemblies; there being no Court of Naturall Justice, but in the Conscience onely; where not Man, but God raigneth; whose lawes , (such of them as oblige all Mankind,) in respect of God, as he is the Author of nature , are Naturall; and in respect of the same God, as he is King of Kings, are lawes 

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OF THE KINGDOME OF GOD BY nature  The Scope Of The Following Chapters That the condition of meer nature , that is to say, of absolute Liberty, such as is theirs, that neither are Soveraigns, nor Subjects, is Anarchy, and the condition of Warre: That the Praecepts, by which men are guided to avoyd that condition, are the lawes  of nature : That a Common-wealth, without Soveraign Power, is but a word, without substance, and cannot stand: That Subjects owe to Soveraigns, simple Obedience, in all things, wherein their obedience is not repugnant to the lawes  of God, I have sufficiently proved, in that which I have already written

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A Threefold Word Of God, Reason, Revelation, Prophecy To rule by Words, requires that such Words be manifestly made known; for else they are no lawes : For to the nature  of lawes  belongeth a sufficient, and clear Promulgation, such as may take away the excuse of Ignorance; which in the lawes  of men is but of one onely kind, and that is, Proclamation, or Promulgation by the voyce of man

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The Right Of Gods Soveraignty Is Derived From His Omnipotence The Right of nature , whereby God reigneth over men, and punisheth those that break his lawes , is to be derived, not from his Creating them, as if he required obedience, as of Gratitude for his benefits; but from his Irresistible Power

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Divine lawes  Having spoken of the Right of Gods Soveraignty, as grounded onely on Nature; we are to consider next, what are the Divine lawes , or Dictates of Naturall Reason; which lawes  concern either the naturall Duties of one man to another, or the Honour naturally due to our Divine Soveraign

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The first are the same lawes  of nature , of which I have spoken already in the 14

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Private, is in secret Free; but in the sight of the multitude, it is never without some Restraint, either from the lawes , or from the Opinion of men; which is contrary to the nature  of Liberty

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Lastly, Obedience to his lawes  (that is, in this case to the lawes  of nature ,) is the greatest worship of all

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For seeing Punishments are consequent to the breach of lawes ; Naturall Punishments must be naturally consequent to the breach of the lawes  of nature ; and therfore follow them as their naturall, not arbitrary effects