** No man in civil society
can be exempted from the laws of it: for if any man may do what
he thinks fit, and there be no appeal on earth, for redress or
security against any harm he shall do; I ask, whether he be not
perfectly still in the state of nature, and so can be no part or
member of that civil society; unless any one will say, the state
of nature and civil society are one and the same thing, which I
have never yet found any one so great a patron of anarchy as to
affirm.
(*At the first, when some certain kind of regiment was once
appointed, it may be that nothing was then farther thought upon
for the manner of goveming, but all permitted unto their wisdom
and discretion, which were to rule, till by experience they found
this for all parts very inconvenient, so as the thing which they
had devised for a remedy, did indeed but increase the sore, which
it should have cured. They saw, that to live by one man's will,
became the cause of all men's misery. This constrained them to
come unto laws, wherein all men might see their duty beforehand,
and know the penalties of transgressing them. Hooker's Eccl.
Pol. l. i. sect. 10.)
(**Civil law being the act of the whole body politic, cloth
therefore over-rule each several part of the same body. Hooker,
ibid.)
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