4. We have more words than Notions, half a dozen words for the fame thing. Sometime we put a new fignification to an old word, as when we call a Piece a Gun. The word Gun was in use in England for an Engine to caft a thing from a man, long before there was any Gun-powder found out.

5. Words must be fitted to a man's mouth; 'twas well faid of the Fellow that was to make a Speech for my Lord Mayor, he defir'd to take measure of his Lordships mouth.

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Law.

Man may plead not guilty, and yet tell no Lye, for by the Law no Man is bound to accufe himself, fo that when I fay Not guilty, the meaning is, as if I fhould fay by way of Paraphrafe, I am Not fo guilty as to tell you; if you will bring me to a Tryal, and have me punisht for this you lay to my Charge, prove it against me.

2. Ignorance of the Law excufes no man, not that all Men know the Law, but because 'tis an excuse every man will plead, and no man can tell how to confute him. 3. The King of Spain was out-law'd in WestminflerHall, I being of Council against him. A Merchant had recover'd Costs against him in a Suit, which because he could not get, we advis'd to have him Out-law'd for not appearing, and fo he was. As foon as Gondimer heard that, he prefently fent the money, by reason, if his Mafter had been Out-law'd he could not have the benefit of the Law, which would have been very prejudicial, there being then many fuits depending betwixt the King of Spain and our English Merchants.

4. Every Law is a Contract between the King and the People, and therefore to be kept. An hundred men may owe me an hundred pounds, as well as any one man, and fhall they not pay me because they are ftronger than I? Object. Oh but they lofe all if they keep that Law. Anfw. Let them look to the making of their Bargain. If I fell my Lands, and when I have done, one comes and tells me I have nothing elfe to keep me. I and my Wife and Children must starve,

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5. The Parliament may declare Law, as well as any other inferiour Court may, (viz.) the Kings Bench. In that or this particular Cafe the Kings Bench will declare unto you what the Law is, but that binds no body whom the Cafe concerns: So the highest Court, the Parliament may doe, but not declare Law, that is, make Law that was never heard of before.

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Law of Nature.

Cannot fancy to my felf what the Law of Nature means, but the Law of God. How fhould I know I ought not to fteal, I ought not to commit Adultery, unless fome body had told me fo? Surely 'tis because I have been told fo? 'Tis not because I think I ought not to do them, nor because you think I ought not; if fo, our minds might change, whence then comes the restraint? from a higher Power, nothing elfe can bind. I cannot bind my self, for I may untye my self again; nor an equal cannot bind me, for we may untie one another. It must be a superiour Power, even God Almighty. If two of us make a Bargain, why should either of us stand to it? What need you care what you fay, or what need I care what I fay? Certainly because there is fomething about me that tells me Fides eft fervanda, and if we after alter our minds, and make a new Bargain, there's Fides fervanda there too.

Learning.

O man is the wifer for his Learning, it may Adminifter matter to work in, or Objects to work upon, but Wit and Wisdom are born

with a Man.

2. Moft mens Learning is nothing but History duly taken up. If I quote Thomas Aquinus for fome Tenet and believe it, because the Schoolmen fay fo, that is but History. Few men make themselves Masters of the things they write or speak.

3. The Jefuits and the Lawyers of France, and the Low-Country-men have engroffed all Learning. The reft of the world make nothing but Homilies.

4. 'Tis obfervable, that in Athens where the Arts flourisht, they were govern'd by a Democrafie, Learning made them think themfelves as wife as any body, and they would govern as well as others; and they fpake as it were by way of Contempt, that in the Eaft and in the North they had Kings, and why? Because the most part of them follow'd their business, and if fome one man had made himself wifer than the reft, he govern'd them, and they willingly fubmitted themselves to him. Ariftotle makes the Observation. And as in Athens the Philofophers made the People knowing, and therefore they thought themselves wife enough to govern, fo does preaching with us, and that makes us affect a Democrafie: For upon these two grounds we all would be Governours, either because we think our felves as wife as the best, or because we think our felves the Elect, and have the Spirit, and the rest a Company of Reprobates that belong to the Devil.

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Lecturers.

Ecturers do in a Parish Church what the Fryers did heretofore, get away not only the Affections, but the Bounty, that should be bestow'd upon the Minister.

2. Lecturers get a great deal of money, because they preach the People tame [as a man watches a Hawk] and then they do what they lift with them.

3. The Lectures in Black Fryers, perform'd by Officers of the Army, Trades-men, and Minifters, is as if a great Lord fhould make a Feaft, and he would have his Cook drefs one Difh, and his Coachman another, his Porter a third, &c.

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Libels.

HO' fome make flight of Libels, yet you may fee by them how the wind fits: As take a ftraw and throw it up into the Air, you fhall fee by that which way the Wind is, which you

fhall not do by cafting up a Stone. More folid things do not how the Completion of the times to well, as

Ballads and Libels.

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Liturgy.

Here is no Church without a Linngy, nor deed can there be conveniently, as there is no School without a Grammar. One Scholar may be taught otherwife upon the Stock of his Ammen, but not a whole School One or two that are proctly pos may ferve themselves their own way, but hardly a whole Nation

2. To know what was generly beler in all Ages, the way is to comit the Liturgies, not any private man's wing As you would know how the Church of England ferves God. Go to the Common prayer-Bock, confult not this nor that man. Bebles Linings never Complement, nor me high Expresions. The Fathers oft-times peak Oratorically.

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Lords in the Parliament

HE Lords giving Protections is a fcom spon them. A Protection means nothing actively, but paffively, be that is a Servant to a Firment man is thereby Protected What a from is it to a pertice of Honour to put his hand to two Lyes at coce, that fich a man is my Servant, and implored by me, when haply he never fw the man iste, tor before sever heard of him.

2. The Loris protating is foolth To protet is property to five to a man's felf some might But to procet is the Loris protest when they their feives

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Smuch fall, and fell my Horie, and take the money, at when I have your Money, and you my Horie, I hold protel is Hires mine, became I love the Hima, or I do not know why I do procet, because my Opinion is contrary to the L Ridiculous, when dhe dy the Bibogs intently protet, it was only dienting, and that in the cafe of the Pope.

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Lords before the Parliament.

Reat Lords by reafon of their Flatterers, are the first that know their own Vertues, and the last that know their own Vices; Some of them are afham'd upwards, because their Ancestors were too great. Others are asham'd downwards, because they were too little.

2. The Priour of St John of Jerufalem is faid to be Primus Baro Anglia, the first Baron of England, because being laft of the Spiritual Barons, he chose to be first of the Temporal. He was a kind of an Otter, a Knight half-Spiritual, and half-Temporal.

3. Quel. Whether is every Baron a Baron of some place? Anfw. 'Tis according to his Patent, of late years they have been made Baron of fome place, but antiently not, call'd only by their Sir-name, or the Sirname of fome Family, into which they have been married.

4. The making of new Lords leffens all the rest. 'Tis in the business of Lords, as 'twas with St. Nicholas's Image; the Countryman, you know, could not find in his heart to adore the new Image, made of his own Plumb-Tree, though he had formerly Worship'd the old one. The Lords that are antient we honour, because we know not whence they come, but the new ones we flight, because we know their beginning.

5. For the Irish Lords to take upon them here in England; is as if the Cook in the Fair fhould come to my Lady Kents kitchen, and take upon him to roast the meat there, because he is a Cook in another place.

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Marriage.

F all Actions of a man's life, his Marriage does leaft concern other people, yet of all Actions of our Life, 'tis most medled with by other people.

2. Marriage is nothing but a Civil Contract, 'tis true 'tis an Ordinance of God: fo is every other Contract, God commands me to keep it when I have made it. 3. Marriage is a defperate thing, the Frogs in were extream wife, they had a great mind to fome

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