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 jutice gives every man a title to the product of his honet indutry, and the fair acquisitions of his ancetors decended to him ; o charity gives every man a title to o much out of another's plenty, as will keep him from extreme want, where he has no means to ubit otherwie : and a man can no more jutly make ue of another's neceity, to force him to become his vaal, by with-holding that relief, God requires him to afford to the wants of his brother, than he that has more trength can eize upon a weaker, mater him to his obedience, and with a dagger at his throat offer him death or lavery.

§. 43. Should any one make o pervere an ue of God's bleings poured on him with a liberal hand ; hould any one be cruel and uncharitable to that extremity, yet all this would not prove that propriety in land, even in this cafe, gave any authority over the perons of men, but only that compact might ; ince the authority of the rich proprietor, and the ubjection of the needy beggar, began not from the poeion of the Lord, but the conent of the poor man, who preferred being his ubject to tarving. And the man he thus ubmits to, can pretend to no more power over him, than he has conented to, upon compact. Upon this ground a man's having his tores filled in a time of carcity, having money in his pocket, being in a veel at ea, being able to wim, &c. may as well be the