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 me, hall lay me; o plain was it writ in the hearts of all mankind.

§. 12. By the ame reaon may a man in the tate of nature punih the leer breaches of that law. It will perhaps be demanded, with death? I anwer, each trangreion may be punihed to that degree, and with o much everity, as will uffice to make it an ill bargain to the offender, give him caue to repent, and terrify others from doing the like. Every offence, that can be committed in the tate of nature, may in the tate of nature be alo punihed equally, and as far forth as it may, in a common-wealth: for though it would be beides my preent purpoe, to enter here into the particulars of the law of nature, or its meaures of punihment; yet, it is certain there is uch a law, and that too, as intelligible and plain to a rational creature, and a tudier of that law, as the poitive laws of common-wealths; nay, poibly plainer; as much as reaon is eaier to be understood, than the fancies and intricate contrivances of men, following contrary and hidden interets put into words; for o truly are a great part of the municipal laws of countries, which are only o far right, as they are founded on the law of nature, by which they are to be regulated and interpreted.

§. 13. To this trange doctrine, viz. That in the tate of nature every one has the executive power of the law of nature, I doubt not but it will