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 are all born laves, and we mut continue o, there is no remedy for it; life and thraldom we enter'd into together, and can never be quit of the one, till we part with the other. Scripture or reaon I am ure do not any where ay o, notwithstanding the noie of divine right, as if divine authority hath ubjected us to the unlimited will of another. An admirable tate of mankind, and that which they have not had wit enough to find out till this latter age. For, however Sir Robert Filmer eems to condemn the novelty of the contrary opinion, Patr. p. 3. yet I believe it will be hard for him to find any other age, or country of the world, but this, which has aerted monarchy to be jure divino. And he confees, Patr. p. 4. That Heyward, Blackwood, Barclay, and others, that have bravely vindicated the right of kings in mot points, never thought of this, but with one conent admitted the natural liberty and equality of mankind.

§. 5. By whom this doctrine came at firt to be broached, and brought in fahion amongt us, and what ad effects it gave rie to, I leave to hitorians to relate, or to the memory of thoe, who were contemporaries with Sibthorp and Manwering, to recollect. My bufines at preent is only to conider what Sir Robert Filmer, who is allowed to have carried this argument farthet, and is uppoed to have brought it to perfection, has aid in it; for