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| nature : condition condition: nature Complete text of 61126723:OF THE NATURALL condition OF MANKIND, AS CONCERNING THEIR FELICITY, AND MISERY Nature hath made men so equall, in the faculties of body, and mind; as that though there bee found one man sometimes manifestly stronger in body, or of quicker mind then another; yet when all is reckoned together, the difference between man, and man, is not so considerable, as that one man can thereupon claim to himselfe any benefit, to which another may not pretend, as well as he Complete text of 61126768:And thus much for the ill condition , which man by meer nature is actually placed in; though with a possibility to come out of it, consisting partly in the Passions, partly in his Reason Complete text of 61126829:Covenants Of Mutuall Trust, When Invalid If a Covenant be made, wherein neither of the parties performe presently, but trust one another; in the condition of meer nature , (which is a condition of Warre of every man against every man,) upon any reasonable suspition, it is Voyd; But if there be a common Power set over them bothe, with right and force sufficient to compell performance; it is not Voyd Complete text of 61126830:For he that performeth first, has no assurance the other will performe after; because the bonds of words are too weak to bridle mens ambition, avarice, anger, and other Passions, without the feare of some coerceive Power; which in the condition of meer nature , where all men are equall, and judges of the justnesse of their own fears cannot possibly be supposed Complete text of 61126847:Covenants Extorted By Feare Are Valide Covenants entred into by fear, in the condition of meer nature , are obligatory Complete text of 61126849:For it is a Contract, wherein one receiveth the benefit of life; the other is to receive mony, or service for it; and consequently, where no other Law (as in the condition, of meer nature ) forbiddeth the performance, the Covenant is valid Complete text of 61126861:For in the condition of nature , where every man is Judge, there is no place for Accusation: and in the Civill State, the Accusation is followed with Punishment; which being Force, a man is not obliged not to resist Complete text of 61126872:The later hath not so; at least not place enough, to keep men to their promises; because in the condition of meer nature , the inequality of Power is not discerned, but by the event of Battell Complete text of 61126884: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 Complete text of 61126938:" For no man giveth, but with intention of Good to himselfe; because Gift is Voluntary; and of all Voluntary Acts, the Object is to every man his own Good; of which if men see they shall be frustrated, there will be no beginning of benevolence, or trust; nor consequently of mutuall help; nor of reconciliation of one man to another; and therefore they are to remain still in the condition of War; which is contrary to the first and Fundamentall Law of nature , which commandeth men to Seek Peace Complete text of 61126953:The Ninth, Against Pride The question who is the better man, has no place in the condition of meer nature ; where, (as has been shewn before,) all men are equall Complete text of 61126984:And thus also the controversie, and the condition of War remaineth, contrary to the Law of nature Complete text of 61127002:And therefore so long as man is in the condition of meer nature , (which is a condition of War,) as private Appetite is the measure of Good, and Evill: and consequently all men agree on this, that Peace is Good, and therefore also the way, or means of Peace, which (as I have shewed before) are Justice, Gratitude, Modesty, Equity, Mercy, & the rest of the Laws of nature , are good; that is to say, Morall Vertues; and their contrarie Vices, Evill Complete text of 61127057: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 Complete text of 61127219:But if there be none that can give the Soveraigntie, after the decease of him that was first elected; then has he power, nay he is obliged by the Law of nature , to provide, by establishing his Successor, to keep those that had trusted him with the Government, from relapsing into the miserable condition of Civill warre Complete text of 61127276:In this condition of meer nature , either the Parents between themselves dispose of the dominion over the Child by Contract; or do not dispose thereof at all Complete text of 61127280: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 Complete text of 61127564:For a League being a connexion of men by Covenants, if there be no power given to any one Man or Assembly, (as in the condition of meer nature ) to compell them to performance, is so long onely valid, as there ariseth no just cause of distrust: and therefore Leagues between Common-wealths, over whom there is no humane Power established, to keep them all in awe, are not onely lawfull, but also profitable for the time they last Complete text of 61127651:But the nature of men being as it is, the setting forth of Publique Land, or of any certaine Revenue for the Common-wealth, is in vaine; and tendeth to the dissolution of Government, and to the condition of meere nature , and War, assoon as ever the Soveraign Power falleth into the hands of a Monarch, or of an Assembly, that are either too negligent of mony, or too hazardous in engaging the publique stock, into a long, or costly war Complete text of 61127767: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 Complete text of 61127808:" Secondly, if it be a Law that obliges only some condition of men, or one particular man and be not written, nor published by word, then also it is a Law of nature ; and known by the same arguments, and signs, that distinguish those in such a condition , from other Subjects Complete text of 61128095:For the Subjects did not give the Soveraign that right; but onely in laying down theirs, strengthned him to use his own, as he should think fit, for the preservation of them all: so that it was not given, but left to him, and to him onely; and (excepting the limits set him by naturall Law) as entire, as in the condition of meer nature , and of warre of every one against his neighbour Complete text of 61128146:And upon this ground it is, that also in Subjects, who deliberatly deny the Authority of the Common-wealth established, the vengeance is lawfully extended, not onely to the Fathers, but also to the third and fourth generation not yet in being, and consequently innocent of the fact, for which they are afflicted: because the nature of this offence, consisteth in the renouncing of subjection; which is a relapse into the condition of warre, commonly called Rebellion; and they that so offend, suffer not as Subjects, but as Enemies Complete text of 61128178:" 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 Complete text of 61128379: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 Complete text of 61129677:And because man was created in a condition Immortall, not subject to corruption, and consequently to nothing that tendeth to the dissolution of his nature ; and fell from that happinesse by the sin of Adam; it followeth, that to be Saved From Sin, is to be saved from all the Evill, and Calamities that Sinne hath brought upon us Complete text of 61130453:) he came not to destroy, but to fulfill,) and other Nations to the Laws of their severall Soveraigns, and all men to the Laws of nature ; the observing whereof, both he himselfe, and his Apostles have in their teaching recommended to us, as a necessary condition of being admitted by him in the last day into his eternall Kingdome, wherein shall be Protection, and Life everlasting Complete text of 61132232:And thus I have brought to an end my Discourse of Civill and Ecclesiasticall Government, occasioned by the disorders of the present time, without partiality, without application, and without other designe, than to set before mens eyes the mutuall Relation between Protection and Obedience; of which the condition of Humane nature , and the Laws Divine, (both Naturall and Positive) require an inviolable observation |