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[limr11]

my desire therefore to be loved of my equals in nature as much as possible may be, imposeth upon me a natural duty of bearing to themward fully the like affection;

 

[limr11]

from which relation of equality between ourselves and them that are as ourselves, what several rules and canons natural reason hath drawn, for direction of life, no man is ignorant, Eccl. Pol. Lib.1."

 

[snowbear95]

So Far Away
Dire Straits

 

[limr11]

Woot!! My glasses are ready early!!

 

[snowbear95]

@limr - I'm gonna let you run with it for a while . . .

 

[snowbear95]

. . . I've got some housework to do.

 

[limr11]

Okay, I'll do a few more paragraphs and then I've got errands (picking up my glasses!) and some work, too.

 

[limr11]

But though this be a state of liberty, yet it is not a state of licence:

 

[limr11]

though man in that state have an uncontroulable [sic] liberty to dispose of his person or possessions, yet he has not liberty to destroy himself, or so much as any creature in his possession, but where some nobler use than its bare preservation calls for it.

 

[limr11]

The state of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one:

 

[limr11]

and reason, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but consult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or possessions;

 

[limr11]

for men being all the workmanship of one omnipotent, and infinitely wise maker;

 

[limr11]

all the servants of one sovereign master, sent into the world by his order, and about his business;

 

[limr11]

they are his property, whose workmanship they are, made to last during his, not one another's pleasure:

 

[limr11]

and being furnished with like faculties, sharing all in one community of nature, there cannot be supposed any such subordination among us, that may authorize us to destroy one another, as if we were made for one another's uses, ans the inferior ranks of creatures are for our's.