Sect. 3.
In his 9. Number he affirms [As a mans judgement in right of nature is to be imployed for his own benefit,* 1.1 so also the strength, &c. of every man is then rightly imployed when he useth it for himself.] To use the Phrase of the time, this Gent. is very selfish, and indeed there is some reason in what he writes; for as his judgement, so his strength, &c. but his judgement is to be imployed accor∣ding to the law of nature only for himself, and so his strength; when some greater good shall be proposed to him, the good of his family, his Nation, the glory of God in his vertuous death, then this life is to be negle∣cted and contemned; as a limb is to be lost rather then a life, the lesse good rather then the greater, so a private life rather then that of a Nation. But his Argument is feeble and of no force, when he saith [Else a man hath no right to preserve himself,* 1.2] for although it be right for a man to preserve himself, yet not with those other great∣er losses; it is right for a man to preserve each piece of his estate, yet to preserve it by force, or losse of a Sons life or his owne, when that piece of his estate shall be incon∣siderable, it is not right for him to doe it; In a word, a mans understanding, strength, or whatsoever a man hath, he hath right to bestow upon the preservation of this life; but then when they are not called for by some more excellent and more desirable good then this life, then they are to be bestowed upon that better imploy∣ment, not this.