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 will be objected, that it is unreaonable for men to be judges in their own caes, that elf-love will make men partial to themelves and their friends: and on the other ide, that ill nature, paion and revenge will carry them too far in punihing others; and hence nothing but confuion and diorder will follow, and that therefore God hath certainly appointed government to retrain the partiality and violence of men. I eaily grant, that civil government is the proper remedy for the inconveniencies of the tate of nature, which mut certainly be great, where men may be judges in their own cae, ince it is eay to be imagined, that he who was o unjut as to do his brother an injury, will carce be o jut as to condemn himelf for it: but I hall deire thoe who make this objection, to remember, that abolute monarchs are but men; and if government is to be the remedy of thoe evils, which necearily follow from men's being judges in their own caes, and the tate of nature is therefore not to be endured, I deire to know what kind of government that is, and how much better it is than the tate of nature, where one man, commanding a multitude, has the liberty to be judge in his own cae, and may do to all his ubjects whatever he pleaes, without the leat liberty to any one to quetion or controul thoe who execute his pleaure? and in whatoever he doth, whether led by reaon, mitake or paion, mut be ubmitted to? much better it