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[To this war of every man against every man this also is consequent that nothing can be unjust.] He must under∣stand this of such men who are not joyned in a politique society; now I deny, that there is nothing unjust to such men, he affirme's it; let us consider his proofes: he prove's it thus [the actions of right or wrong, justice and injustice, have there no place] this is the same in other words, but his proof lye's in what followe's [where there is no common Power, there is no Law, where no law, no in∣justice] thus he.* 1.1 To this I answer, that there is no man born in this world without a Law and a common Power over him and others; the Law is that writ in their hearts, and this is it which St. Paul speake's, Rom. 2.15. Which shewe's the law written in their hearts, that law of Nature that practique law which is writ in the heart of every man, and this common Power is GOD; and there∣fore, as St. Paul speakes there, their Conscience also bear∣ing witness, and their thoughts, the mean while, accusing or excusing one another; where there is evidence accusing, excusing, there is supposed a common Power, so that there is a Common Power, and this secretly acknowledged by men; and that he hath given them certain lawes for the breach of which there is a horror and dread, insomuch as a man cannot live, or it is a prodigie to see a man with∣out all Conscience of the principal and fundamentall rules of reason; although men may doe and act against those Lawes, yet untill a long custom of living have hardned their hearts, or some such wicked principles, as his, have, by degrees, stollen an approbation in their their understandings (by degrees, I say, for I think it not possible to be done in an instant) untill then it is not pos∣possible