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 damage he has received. That, he who has uffered the damage has a right to demand in his own name, and he alone can remit: the damnified peron has this power of appropriating to himelf the goods or ervice of the offender, by right of elf-preervation, as every man has a power to punih the crime, to prevent its being committed again, by the right he has of preerving all mankind, and doing all reaonable things he can in order to that end: and thus it is, that every man, in the tate of nature, has a power to kill a murderer, both to deter others from doing the like injury, which no reparation can compenate, by the example of the punihment that attends it from every body, and alo to ecure men from the attempts of a criminal, who having renounced reaon, the common rule and meaure God hath given to mankind, hath, by the unjut violence and laughter he hath committed upon one, declared war againt all mankind, and therefore may be detroyed as a lion or a tyger, one of thoe wild avage beats, with whom men can have no ociety nor ecurity: and upon this is grounded that great law of nature, Whoo heddeth man's blood, by man hall his blood be hed. And Cain was o fully convinced, that every one had a right to detroy uch a criminal, that after the murder of his brother, he cries out, Every one that findeth me,