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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
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.
7. The experience of all mankind constraineth them to consent to this, that Man is a creature made for Government. ⟨p. 41⟩Therefore even among Cannibals, Parents govern their Children, and Husbands govern their Wives; and in all the rational world, there are Rulers and Subjects, Masters and Servants, Tutors and Scholars, which all are Governors or Governed. Few men are to be found alive on earth, who would have all men, or any men save themselves ungoverned. Otherwise Men would be worse to Men, I say not, than Serpents, and Toads, and Tigers are to one another, but than any of them are to men. Every man that had strength and opportunity, would make a prey of the life or welfare of his brother. Mens own necessity forceth them every where to set up Governments, that they may not live as in a continual war, in danger and fear of one another; nay, a war that is managed by Armies, is also ordered by Government, because many must agree for mutual defence: but else, every man would be against another, and they would be as so many fighting Cocks or Dogs, every one would fight or fly for himself; for fighting or flying, injuring and being injured would be all their lives.
7. The experience of all mankind constraineth them to consent to this, that Man is a creature made for Government. ⟨p. 41⟩Therefore even among Cannibals, Parents govern their Children, and Husbands govern their Wives; and in all the rational world, there are Rulers and Subjects, Masters and Servants, Tutors and Scholars, which all are Governours or Governed. Few men are to be found alive on earth, who would have all men, or any men save themselves ungoverned. Otherwise Men would be worse to Men, I say not, than Serpents, and Toads, and Tygers are to one another, but than any of them are to men. Every man that had strength and opportunity, would make a prey of the life or welfare of his brother. Mens own necessity forceth them every where to set up Governments, that they may not live as in a continual war, in danger and fear of one another; nay, a war that is managed by Armies, is also ordered by Government, because many must agree for mutual defence: but else, every man would be against another, and they would be as so many fighting Cocks or Dogs, every one would fight or flie for himself; for fighting or flying, injuring and being injured would be all their lives.