The reasons of the Christian religion the first part, of godliness, proving by natural…

That Humane Government is appointed by God, appeareth thus: 1. In that the light of Nature teacheth it all the World. 2. In that God hath put into mans Nature a necessity of it, and therefore signified his will concerning it: It is, needful to the very lives of men, and to their highest perfections, order, and attainments. If Parents did not govern ⟨p. 57⟩Children, and Teachers their Scholars, and Masters their Servants, and Princes their Subjects, the World would be as a Wilderness of wild beasts, and men would not live like men, according to their natural capacities: I deny not, but some one or few by necessity or some extraordinary circumstances, may be exempted from this obligation, by being uncapable of the benefit: being cast into a Wilderness, or such like place, where the benefit of Government is not to be had. But that's nothing to the commoner case of Mankind: As Marriage is indifferent to those individuals that need not the benefits of it; but it is not lawful for the World of Mankind, to forbear procreation, to the extinction of it self.

That Humane Government is appointed by God, appeareth thus: 1. In that the light of Nature teacheth it all the World. 2. In that God hath put into mans Nature a necessity of it, and therefore signified his will concerning it: It is, needfull to the very lives of men, and to their highest perfections, order, and attainments. If Parents did not govern ⟨p. 57⟩Children, and Teachers their Scholars, and Masters their Servants, and Princes their Subjects, the World would be as a Wilderness of wilde beasts, and men would not live like men, according to their natural capacities: I deny not, but some one or few by necessity or some extraordinary circumstances, may be exempted from this obligation, by being uncapable of the benefit: being cast into a Wilderness, or such like place, where the benefit of Government is not to be had. But that's nothing to the commoner case of Mankinde: As Marriage is indifferent to those individuals that need not the benefits of it; but it is not lawfull for the World of Mankinde, to forbear procreation, to the extinction of it self.