The most part are too busie in getting food, and the rest too negligent to understand. To be seduced by Orators, as a Monarch by Flatterers. Sometimes justice cannot be had without money. A Law is the Command of him, or them that have the Soveraign Power. The law of England hath been fined and refined by an infinite number of grave and learned men.
Reason is the Soul of the Law.
It is an easy thing, for men to be deceived, by the specious name of Libertie. This naturall proclivity of men, to hurt each other. When the greatest part of Men are so unreasonable as they are. Why any man should take the law of his country rather than his own Inspiration, for the rule of his action. The obligation of subjects to the sovereign is understood to last as long, and no longer, than the power lasteth by which he is able to protect them.