Aunsw: wee are like to haue as good condic̅o̅ns there in tyme; but yet we must leaue all this abundance, if it bee not taken fro̅ vs. When we are in o^r graues, it will bee all one whether we haue liued in plenty or in penury, whether we haue dyed in a bed of downe or lockes of straw. Onely this is y^e advantage of y^e meane condic̅o̅n, y^t it is a more freedo̅e̅ to dye. And y^e lesse co̅fort any haue in y^e things of this world, y^e more liberty y^y haue to lay vp treasure in heauen. Obj. 4. wee may perish by y^e way or when we co̅e̅ there, having hunger or y^e sword &c and how vnco̅fortable will it bee to see o^r wives & children & friends come to such miserie by o^r occasion? Aunsw. Such objections savour too much of y^e flesh. Who can secure himselfe or his fro̅ y^e like calamities here? If this course bee warrantable, we may trust Gods providence for these things. Either hee will keepe those evills fro̅ vs, or will dispose y^m for o^r good & enable vs to beare y^m. Obj. 5. But what warrant haue we to take y^t land, w^{ch} is & hath bene of long tyme possessed of others y^e sons of Adam? Aunsw. That w^{ch} is com̅o̅ to all is proper to none. This Savage people ruleth ouer many lands w^{th}out title or property: for y^y inclose no ground, neither haue y^y cattell to maintayne it, but remooue their dwellings as y^y haue occasion, or as y^y can prevaile agt their neighbours. And why may not Christians haue liberty to go & dwell amongst y^m in their wast lands & woodds (leaving y^m such places as y^y haue manured for their corne) as lawfully, as Abraham did amongst y^e Sodomites? For God hath giuen to y^e sons of men a 2 fould right to y^e earth: there is a naturall right & a civill right. The first right was naturall when men held y^e earth in com̅o̅, every man sowing & seeding where hee pleased: then, as men and cattell increased, y^y appropriated some parcells of ground by enclosing & peculiar manurance, & this in tyme got y^m a civill right. Such was y^e right w^{ch} Ephron y^e Hittite had _in_ y^e field of Machpelah, wherein Abraham could not bury a dead corps w^{th}out leaue, though for y^e outparts of y^e countrey w^{ch} lay com̅on, hee dwelt vpo̅ y^m & tooke y^e fruit of y^m at his pleasure. This appeares also in Jacob & his sons who fedd their flocks as bouldly in y^e Canaanites Land for hee is said to bee Lord of y^e countrey; & at Dotham and all other places men accounted nothing their owne, but y^t w^{ch} y^y had appropriated by their owne industry, as appeares plainly by Abimelechs servaunts, who in their owne countrey did often contend w^{th} Isaacks servaunts about wells w^{ch} y^y had digged; but neuer about y^e lands w^{ch} y^y occupied. So likewise betweene Jacob & Laban: hee would not take a kidd of Labans w^{th}out speciall contract; but hee makes no bargaine w^{th} him for y^e land where y^y fedd. And it is probable y^t if y^e countrey had not bene as free for