CHAP. XXXV.
IT is time now, if I may so terme it, to produce some pe••ces of our owne coine. He that hath bestowed such a benefit, aboue which there may be somewhat found better, may bee ouer-come in be∣nefits: The Father gaue life vnto his Sonne, but there is some∣thing better then life, so the father may be ouercome in a benefit by the sonne, because the sonne may giue some thing better and greater then the father. Furthermore, hee that hath giuen life to an other man, if once or twice ••e were deliuered by the same man from death, he hath receiued a grea∣ter ben••••it then that which he gaue; so the father hath giuen life; but if he be oft-tim••s deliuered from the perill of death by his sonne, hee shall receiue a greater b••nefit then he gaue him. He that hath receiued a good turne, the more he needeth that which he hath receiued, he hath receiued the great••r goodnes: but he t••••t liueth, hath more want of life, then he that is not borne (as of whom he cann••t properly say, to haue neede of any thing.) The father therefore hath receiu•••• •• greater good turne, if he hath receiued life at his sonnes hands, then the sonne from the father, in that he is borne: But the parents benefits cannot be surmounted by these good offices, the child performeth vnto him, why? be∣cause he ••ath receiued his life from his father, which had hee not receiued hee could not haue giuen a benefit. This is then but common to the father, and all those who haue at any time giuen life to any man. For had they not receiued life, they could not haue returned beneficiall gratitude: Therefore greater sa••tisfaction is not intended to the Physitian, though the Phys•••••••••• likewise i•• wont to giue life; nor to the Mariner though hee hath saued from shipwrack, so that a man may surmount the benefits both of the one and ••he other, who hath by any meanes saued our lifes; and consequently then th•• benefits of our parents may be also exceeded: if any man hath done mee a good turne which serueth me to no vse, except it be assisted and seconded by the ••auours of diuer•• other persons, and if afterwards I haue done him an other courtesie, that hath no neede of other mens assistance, I haue giuen a greater good turne then that which I haue receiued: The father hath giuen life to his child, which he should loose instantly, were it not sustained by diuers other succours•• But if the sonne hath saued his fathers life, he hath giuen him such a life, as hath no neede of any other assistance to sustaine it selfe of it selfe. Ergo the father receiuing life at his sonnes hands, receiueth a greater benefit, then that was which the father hath giuen him.