A27004:119
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.
As all Children need not the same proportion, so all deserve not the same: And those Parents that have great Estates, may leave more to their own children than to others: so that ⟨p. 7⟩many ways both Propriety and disproportion may certainly come to pass, and be allowed in the World.1
As all Children need not the same proportion, so all deserve not the same: And those Parents that have great Estates, may leave more to their own children than to others: so that ⟨p. 7⟩many wayes both Propriety and disproportion may certainly come to pass, and be allowed in the World.1
- 1Inter nos naturâ ad civilem communitatem conjuncti & consociati sumus. Quod ni ita se haberet, nec justitiae ullus esset, nec bonitati locus; & quomodo hominum inter homines juris esse vincula putant, sic homini nihil juris esse cum bestiis: Chrysippus ait caetera nata esse hominum causâ & Deorum; eos autem societatis suae, &c. Cato in Cicer. de finib. l. 3. p. 149.
§. 7. Therefore there is such a thing as Justice due from man to man, for the preservation of these Rights and Order: and it's injustice to violate them.
This is confessed by all the World, that look for Justice from others: And if it be not maintained, the world will be as in a continual War or Robbery: But better grounds and proofs of it, will be mentioned anon.