NON-IiNrTERVENTlON"LOUll HACON. m 



As touching iioii-interventioiu the following remarks 

 iippear to me striking and satidactory : — 



" It is a great error, and <a narrowness, or straitncss of 

 mind, if any man tliiak that nations have nothing to do 

 one ^vlth another, except there citlicr an union in 

 sovereignty, or a conjunction in pacts or iengiiefi. There 

 are other bands of ao^sioty and implicit confederations, 

 . . . , above all there is tlie supreme and indis- 

 soluble consanguinity and society between mm in general:* 

 of which tiie heathen {whom the Apostle calls to witness) 

 saith 'we are all his generation,' But nmcii more we 

 Christians, unto whom it ia revealed in particularity that 

 all men came from one lump of earth, and that two 

 singular persons were the parents from whom all the 

 generations of the world are descended, — ^we, I say^ ought 

 to acknowledge that no nations are wholly aliens and 

 strangers the one to the other. Now if there be such a 

 tacit league or confederation, sure it is not idle ; it is 

 agiiinst somewhati or somebody : who should they be ? 

 Is it against wild beasts 'i or the elements of fire and 

 water ? 'No — it is against such routs and shoals of people, 

 as have utterly degenerated from the laws of nature ; as 

 have in their Teiy body, and frame of estate, a mon- 

 Btrosity ; and may be truly accounted (according to the 

 examples we have formerly recited) common enenxies and 

 grievances of mankind, or disgraces and reproaches to 



* " SwGct oic Ulc lints that bind ii» to gur kind, 

 Mcek:^ \mi nnyicklip^ ; fell, but uDdcriu'il*'^ 



