Gods Lawes obeyed, are the support of a Common-wealth. [ 696]
IT fareth with the body politick,* 1.1 as it doth with the body naturall, if the humours keep their proportion, we have health; no sooner do they swerve from it, but they begin a disease, which maketh way to pu••refaction, and so to dissolution; wherefore we apply physick to reduce them again into a due temper. Even so, while good Lawes sway,* 1.2 our carriage towards our selves, towards our neighbours, each man doth well, the Commonwealth doth prosper; but no sooner doth the Subject break these bonds, but a civill putrefaction enters, which maketh way to the ruine of a State, whoreth every mans particular interest is hazarded with the whole, the remedy where of is the work of judgement, but it must be attended with Justice also; not the Kings affections, but his Lawes must moderate his Iudgement, and the medicine must be fitted to the Disease; otherwise if the scales of Iustice do not firft weigh the merits of the cause, the Judgement will as much disquiet the State, as discontent the party judged.