Eccl. Pol. l. i. sect. 16.)
Sec. 91. For he being supposed to have all, both
legislative and executive power in himself alone, there is no
judge to be found, no appeal lies open to any one, who may
fairly, and indifferently, and with authority decide, and from
whose decision relief and redress may be expected of any injury
or inconviency, that may be suffered from the prince, or by his
order: so that such a man, however intitled, Czar, or Grand
Seignior, or how you please, is as much in the state of nature,
with all under his dominion, as he is with therest of mankind:
for where-ever any two men are, who have no standing rule, and
common judge to appeal to on earth, for the determination of
controversies of right betwixt them, there they are still in the
state of* nature, and under all the inconveniencies of it, with
only this woful difference to the subject, or rather slave of an
absolute prince: that whereas, in the ordinary state of nature,
he has a liberty to judge of his right, and according to the best
of his power, to maintain it; now, whenever his property is
invaded by the will and order of his monarch, he has not only no
appeal, as those in society ought to have, but as if he were
degraded from the common state of rational creatures, is denied a
liberty to judge of, or to defend his right; and so is exposed to
all the misery and inconveniencies, that a man can fear from one,
who being in the unrestrained state of nature, is yet corrupted
with flattery, and armed with power.
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