Sect. 6.
[But (saith he) though there had never been any time wherein particular men were in a conditirn of war one against another: yet in all time Kings and persons of soveraign Au∣thority, because of their independency, are in continual jea∣lousies, and in the state and posture of Gladiators, having their weapons pointing, and their eyes fixed one on another.] This was so handsomly expressed, that I could willing∣ly have let it alone; but least it should, by the ingenuity of it, steale a credit of his opinion into a Reader, I must censure it as nothing to the purpose; for all this can prove no war, but that these Soveraignes imagine each other may be wicked, and Faith-breakers, just as before, because there may be Thieves in his family, he lock's his Chest. This prove's only that they are in a posture of war, but not in war it self; or, indeed, this is not absolutely a posture of war, for that require's men pressed, drawne into the field. And by this reckoning all Nations should be at war one with another; and indeed there is the same condition betwixt them and particular persons, who have no supreame coercive power amongst them to re∣straine them; but to say, that all Nations are at war one with another, even those who are in peace, were to say, as he did before, that all things are motion, even rest its self. But now I come to the upshot which he aimed at, and I think most wicked, for which cause it was necessary for me lightly to s••eep away the rubbige, which being done, I come to his following discourse.