Part II. The Living Temple. 263 more dire&iy flrike at his Crown and Dignity, as Treafon, or Rebellion, fear?, more principally, levelled againft him- felf, and his own Rights; fo is the legal Punifhment of them to be more at his Arbitrement, whether to infii&, or not infiCt it, becaufe it may teem in any one's power to difpenle with, or recede from, his own Rights : Yet, indeed, if the Mattes be more narrowly ican'd, the Relaxation of thefe íhould be, in reafon, lefs in his power than of any other ; becaufe, they more directly of -, front that Supream Ruler, whomhe re- prefents, and threaten the Difolution of the Government, which is the principal Civil Good of the whole Community, and that the Benefits whereof are their highefi Right. IfViolence be done to aprivate Subject, the Impunity of the Offender would be a public( Wrong ; becaufe it remotely tends, by the bad- nefs of the Example, to the Hurt ofthe wholeCommunity. But, in this Cafe, without any filch Circulation, all theRights of the Com- munity are immediately flrucIZ at toge- ther, in Cher central Knot and 7unc- ture Wherefore here, moll of all, the Prince is Debtor to the Community. But S 4 now,
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