President we now have, had no Presi∣dent when it began; when every Cu∣stom began, there was something else than Custom that made it lawful, or else the beginning of all Customs were unlawful. Customs at first became Law∣ful only by some Superiour, which did either Command or Consent unto their beginning. And the first Power which we find (as it is confessed by all men) is the Kingly Power, which was both in this and in all other Nations of the World, long before any Laws, or any other kind of Government was thought of; from whence we must necessarily infer, that the Common Law it self, or Com∣mon Customs of this Land, were Origi∣nally the Laws and Commands of Kings at first unwritten.Nor must we think the Common Customs (which are the Principles of the Common Law, and are but few) to be such, or so many, as are able to give special Rules to determine every parti∣cular Cause. Diversity of Cases are in∣finite, and impossible to be regulated by any Law; and therefore we find, even in the Divine Laws which are delivered 0