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The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural…
The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural evidence the being of God ... : the second part, of Christianity, proving by evidence supernatural and natural, the certain truth of the Christian belief ... / by Richard Baxter ... ; also an appendix defending the soul's immortality against the Somatists or Epicureans and other pseudo-philosophers.
London: printed by R. White for Fran. Titon, 1667
Part 1 › Chapter 3: Of Men as mutually Related to each other.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
For this is the end of the Association: He that will be for none but himself, cannot justly expect that any should be for him: And he that would have all the society be helpful to him, must to his power be helpful to all.
For this is the end of the Association: He that will be for none but himself, cannot justly expect that any should be for him: And he that would have all the society be helpfull to him, must to his power be helpfull to all.
1§. 5. The distinction of persons, and their interests and actions, foundeth a distinction of Propriety and Rights.
- 1Sic nos nati videmur, ut inter omnes esset societas quaedam. Cic. de Amicit. Homo naturaliter est animal politicum & civil. Aristot. 1. Polit.Sic nos nati videmur, ut inter omnes esset societas quaedam. Cic. de Amicit. Homo naturaliter est animal politicum & civile. Aristot. 1. Polit.
For natural Individuation maketh it necessary that every man have his own food, and his own clothing, at least for the time: and therefore it is usually needful to the good of the whole and the parts, that each one have also their provisional Proprieties: And the difference of men in wit and folly, industry and sloth, virtue and vice, good or ill deserts, will also cause a difference of Propriety and Rights: Though these may be in part subjected to the common good.
For natural Individuation maketh it necessary that every man have his own food, and his own cloathing, at least for the time: and therefore it is usually needfull to the good of the whole and the parts, that each one have also their provisional Proprieties: And the difference of men in wit and folly, industry and sloth, virtue and vice, good or ill deserts, will also cause a difference of Propriety and Rights: Though these may be in part subjected to the common good.