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 during his, not one another's pleaure: and being furnihed with like faculties, haring all in one community of nature, there cannot be uppoed any uch ubordination among us, that may authorize us to detroy one another, as if we were made for one another's ues, as the inferior ranks of creatures are for our's. Every one, as he is bound to preerve himelf, and not to quit his tation wilfully, o by the like reaon, when his own preservation comes not in competition, ought he, as much as he can, to preerve the ret of mankind, and may not, unles it be to do jutice on an offender, take away, or impair the life, or what tends to the preervation of the life, the liberty, health, limb, or goods of another.

§. 7. And that all men may be retrained from invading others rights, and from doing hurt to one another, and the law of nature be oberved, which willeth the peace and preervation of all mankind, the execution of the law of nature is, in that tate, put into every man's hands, whereby every one has a right to punih the trangreors of that law to uch a degree, as may hinder its violation: for the law of nature would, as all other laws that concern men in this world, be in vain, if there were no body that in the tate of nature had a power to execute that law, and thereby preerve the innocent and retrain offenders. And if anyone in the tate of nature may punih another for any evil he has done,