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 repects grieve them as much as me; o that if I do harm, I mut look to uffer, there being no reaon that others hould hew greater meaure of love to me, than they have by me hewed unto them; my deire therefore to be loved of my equals in nature, as much as poible may be, impoeth upon me a natural duty of bearing to them-ward fully the like affection; from which relation of equality between ourelves and them that are as ourelves, what everal rules and canons natural reaon hath drawn, for direction of life, no man is ignorant. Eccl. Pol. Lib. 1.

§. 6. But though this be a tate of liberty, yet it is not a tate of licence: though man in that tate have an uncontroulable liberty to dipoe of his peron or poeions, yet he has not liberty to detroy himelf, or o much as any creature in his poeion, but where ome nobler ue than its bare preervation calls for it. The tate of nature has a law of nature to govern it, which obliges every one: and reaon, which is that law, teaches all mankind, who will but conult it, that being all equal and independent, no one ought to harm another in his life, health, liberty, or poeions: for men being all the workmanhip of one omnipotent, and infinitely wie maker; all the ervants of one overeign mater, ent into the world by his order, and about his buines; they are his property, whoe workmanhip they are, made to lat during