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more comfort, or to guide them from a more barren 

 land to a more fruitful, or the like : upon these 

 deserts, and the admiration and recompense of them, 

 people submitted themselves. 



The third, which was the most usual of all, was 

 conduct in war, which even in nature induceth as 

 great an obligation as paternity. For as men owe 

 their life and being to their parents in regard of 

 generation, so they owe that also to saviours in the 

 wars in regard of preservation. And therefore we 

 find in chap, xviii. of the book of Judges, ver. 22, 

 &quot; Dixerunt omnes viri ad Gideon, Dominare nostri, 

 &quot; tu et filii tui, quoniam servasti nos de manu Ma- 

 &quot; dian.&quot; And so we read when it was brought to 

 the ears of Saul, that the people sung in the streets, 

 &quot; Saul hath killed his thousands, and David his ten 

 &quot; thousand of enemies,&quot; he said straightways : &quot; Quid 

 &quot; ei superest nisi ipsum regnum ?&quot; For whosoever 

 hath the military dependence, wants little of being 

 king. 



The fourth is an inforced submission, which is 

 conquest, whereof it seemed Nimrod was the first 

 precedent, of whom it is said ; &quot; Ipse ccepit potens 

 &quot; esse in terra, et erat robustus venator coram Domi- 

 &quot; no.&quot; And this likewise is upon the same root 

 which is the saving or gift as it were of life and 

 being; for the conqueror hath power of life and 

 death over his captives ; and therefore where he 

 giveth them themselves, he may reserve upon such 

 a gift what service and subjection he will. All these 



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