Sect. 1.
TO understand which, let us conceive, that the law of Nature belonging to every thing is that law which was given it at the Creation; and the right of nature,* 1.1 or jus Naturale, must be that authority or title is granted by that law to use or doe any thing; which title can be no∣thing but that jus or right which God gave him, Gen. 1.28, 29. Which we find to extend to the Earth, the Fowle, the fishes,* 1.2 the living things that move upon the earth, the herbs and trees; This is his Jus Natu∣rale, but yet this is not to be used as he will, al∣though he be Lord of them, there are lawes for Lords as well as servants, Kings as well as subjects; and they must be subject to the King of heaven, as their sub∣jects to them; yea, in these things which they are made Lords over; We may see in the 4. of Genesis, that Cain and Abel brought Oblations to GOD of those things over which they had a most peculiar dominion; they pay'd God, as it were, a tribute out of those things he gave them a right to by that law of nature which he gave them at their creation; from whence it appeare's that man hath not such right to any thing, much lesse to all things, to do what he pleaseth with or to them, for then they had had no right to have neglected that duty of Oblation, and then they could have done nothing by which God should have put a difference betwixt Cain