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laws with some reducement worthy to govern, and it 

 were the world : but this is that which I say, and I 

 desire therein your attention, that, according to true 

 reason of estate, naturalization is in order first and 

 precedent to union of laws ; in degree a less matter 

 than union of laws ; and in nature separable, not in 

 separable from union of laws ; for naturalization doth 

 but take out the marks of a foreigner, but union of 

 laws makes them entirely as ourselves. Naturaliza 

 tion taketh away separation ; but union of laws doth 

 take away distinction. Do we not see, Mr. Speaker, 

 that in the administration of the world under the 

 great monarch God himself, that his laws are di 

 verse ; one law in spirits, another in bodies ; one law 

 in regions celestial, another in elementary ; and yet 

 the creatures are all one mass or lump, without any 

 &quot; vacuum&quot; or separation ? Do we not likewise see in 

 the state of the Church, that amongst people of all 

 languages and lineages there is one communion of 

 saints, and that we are all fellow-citizens and natura 

 lized of the heavenly Jerusalem ; and yet neverthe 

 less divers and several ecclesiastical laws, policies, 

 and hierarchies, according to the speech of that 

 worthy father, &quot; In veste varietas sit, scissura non 

 &quot; sit ?&quot; And therefore certainly, Mr. Speaker, the 

 bond of law is the more special and private bond, 

 and the bond of naturalization the more common 

 and general ; for the laws are rather &quot; figura reipub- 

 &quot; licas&quot; than &quot; forma,&quot; and rather bonds of perfection 

 than bonds of entireness : and therefore we see in the 

 experience of our own government, that in the king- 



