===CHAPTER XXV : OF COUNSEL建議?

How fallacious荒謬的 it is to judge of the nature of things, by the?

ordinary and inconstant無常的 use of words, appeareth in nothing more,?

than in the confusion of counsels, and commands, arising from the?

imperative必要的 manner of speaking in them both, and in many other?

occasions besides.

★infer 推斷? ? ?★deduce 推斷

★discourse 講述/演說

===CHAPTER XXVI ：OF CIVIL LAWS

★diligence 勤勉

If it be a law that obliges責成/強制 all the subjects without exception,?

and is not written, nor otherwise published in such places?

as they may take notice thereof, it is a law of nature.?

★warrant 擔保

For commentaries評注 are commonly more subject to cavil吹毛求疵/苛責,?

than the text; and therefore need other commentaries; and so there?

will be no end of such interpretation.?

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The things that make a good judge, or good interpreter of?

the laws, are, first, a right understanding of that principal?

law of nature called equity;?

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Secondly, contempt★蔑視 of unnecessary riches, and preferments優(yōu)先.?

(蔑視不必要的財富)

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Thirdly, to be able in judgment to divest丟棄/剝?nèi)?himself of all fear,?

anger, hatred, love, and compassion.?

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Fourthly, and lastly, patience to hear; diligent勤勉的 attention in?

hearing; and memory to retain★保持, digest, and apply what he hath heard.?

Civil law is an obligation; and takes from us the liberty?

which the law of nature gave us.

Nature gave a right to every man to secure himself by his?

own strength, and to invade a suspected neighbour, by way of?

prevention: but the civil law takes away that liberty, in all cases?

where the protection of the law may be safely stayed for.?

===CHAPTER XXVII OF CRIMES, EXCUSES寬恕, AND EXTENUATIONS減刑?

Every crime is a sin; but not every sin a crime. To intend to steal,?

or kill, is a sin, though it never appear in word, or fact

When a man is destitute缺乏的 of food, or other thing necessary for?

his life, and cannot preserve himself any other way, but by some fact?

against the law; as if in a great famine he take the food by force, or?

stealth, which he cannot obtain for money, nor charity; or in defence?

of his life, snatch搶奪 away another man's sword; he is totally excused,?

for the reason next before alleged所謂的.?

The same fact done against the law, if it proceed from presumption?

of strength, riches, or friends to resist those that are to?

execute the law, is a greater crime, than if it proceed from hope of?

not being discovered, or of escape by flight