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 kind increae and multiply, hould rather himelf give them all a right to make ue of the food and raiment, and other conveniences of life, the materials whereof he had o plentifully provided for them ; than to make them depend upon the will of a man for their ubitence, who hould have power to detroy them all when he pleaed, and who, being no better than other men, was in ucceion likelier, by want and the dependence of a canty fortune, to tie them to hard ervice, than by liberal allowance of the conveniences of life to promote the great deign of God, increae and multiply : he that doubts this, let him look into the abolute monarchies of the world, and ee what becomes of the conveniences of life, and the multitudes of people.

§. 42. But we know God hath not left one man o to the mercy of another, that he may tarve, him if he pleae : God the Lord and Father of all has given no one of his children uch a property in his peculiar portion of the things of this world, but that he has given his needy brother a right to the urpluage of his goods ; o that it cannot jutly be denied him, when his preing wants call for it : and therefore no man could ever have a jut power over the life of another by right of property in land or poeions ; ince it would always be a in, in any man of etate, to let his brother perih for want of affording him relief out of his plenty. As jutice