Certain disputations of right to sacraments, and the true nature of visible Christianity defending…

2. Another kind of Right to Benefit, is that which accidentally and indirectly ariseth from another mans Duty: As e. g. the Physician of an Hospital, commandeth his Apothecary to give so much of such a precious Cordial to every one of his Patien•s who fainteth or falls into a Lipothymie, but not to the rest: Some of the Patients that they may partake of the Cordial, pretend to faint or swoon: The Apothecary doth his best to discern whether they dissemble, and cannot discern it: Hereupon it is his duty to give it these as well as to others, because he that commanded the Administration intended not that he should know the heart, or be infallible, but should proceed according to his best skill and judgement, or else he must do nothing: So that esse & apparere, & non esse & non apparere, is all one to him. The dissembling of the Patient doth accidentally occasion, or cause it to be his duty to give him the Cordial: And when it is become his duty to Give it, the Patient may so far be said to have Right to it, as that he may justify his demand before any Physicians that are unacquainted with his dissimulation, and the Apothecary had truly a Right or Power to give it, and may justify it before any. Yet this is but improperly called A Right to the Cordial, and properly it is but to be the Object of the Just Action of the Administer. For though the Apothecary had warrant to administer it upon a claim, though wrong, yet the Patient had no Right to warrant his claim; and ⟨p. 353⟩therefore his claim it self being unjust for want of Antecedent Right, it could not give him a proper subsequent Right, though in the common judgement of undiscerning men, he had Right.

2. Another kind of Right to Benefit, is that which accidentally and indirectly ariseth from another mans Duty: As e. g. the Physician of an Hospital, commandeth his Apothecary to give so much of such a precious Cordial to every one of his Patien•s who fainteth or falls into a Lipothymie, but not to the rest: Some of the Patients that they may partake of the Cordial, pretend to faint or swoun: The Apothecary doth his best to discern whether they dissemble, and cannot discern it: Hereupon it is his duty to give it these as well as to others, because he that commanded the Administration intended not that he should know the heart, or be infallible, but should proceed according to his best skill and judgement, or else he must do nothing: So that esse & apparere, & non esse & non apparere, is all one to him. The dissembling of the Patient doth accidentally occasion, or cause it to be his duty to give him the Cordial: And when it is become his duty to Give it, the Patient may so far be said to have Right to it, as that he may justifie his demand before any Physitians that are unacquainted with his dissimulation, and the Apothecary had truly a Right or Power to give it, and may justifie it before any. Yet this is but improperly called A Right to the Cordial, and properly it is but to be the Object of the Just Action of the Administer. For though the Apothecary had warrant to administer it upon a claim, though wrong, yet the Patient had no Right to warrant his claim; and