"it is a firme Law and radicall principle in Nature engraven in the tables of the heart by the finger of God in creation for every living moving thing, wherein there is a breadth of life to defend, preserve, award, and deliver it selfe from all things hurtfull, destructive and obnoctious thereto to the utmost power"
— Overton, Richard (fl. 1640-1663)
Work Title
Place of Publication
London
Publisher
[s.n.]
Date
1647
Metaphor
"it is a firme Law and radicall principle in Nature engraven in the tables of the heart by the finger of God in creation for every living moving thing, wherein there is a breadth of life to defend, preserve, award, and deliver it selfe from all things hurtfull, destructive and obnoctious thereto to the utmost power"
Metaphor in Context
it is a firme Law and radicall principle in Nature engraven in the tables of the heart by the finger of God in creation for every living moving thing, wherein there is a breadth of life to defend, preserve, award, and deliver it selfe from all things hurtfull, destructive and obnoctious thereto to the utmost power: Therefore from hence is conveyed to all men in generall, and to every man in particular, an undoubted principle of reason, by all rationall an iust wayes and meanes possibly he may, to save, defend and deliver himselfe from all oppression, violence and cruelty whatsoever, and (in duty to his won safety and being) to leave no iust expedient unattempted for his delivery therefrom: and this is rationall and iust; to deny it is to overture the law of nature, yea, and of Religion too; for the contrary lets in nothing but selfe murther, violence and cruelty.
Provenance
Reading Macpherson's Possessive Individualism (141)
Citation
Only 1 entry in ESTC (1647).
See An Appeale from the Degenerate Representative Body the Commons of England Assembled at Westminster: To the Body Represented, the Free People in General of the Several Counties, Cities, Townes, Burroughs, and Places Within This Kingdome of England, and Dominion of Wales. and in Especiall, to His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax (Captaine Generall) and to All the Officers and Souldiers Under His Command. By Richard Overton, Prisoner in the Infamous Goale of Newgate, for the Liberties and Freedomes of England. (London: [s.n.], Printed in the yeare, 1647). <Link to ESTC>
See An Appeale from the Degenerate Representative Body the Commons of England Assembled at Westminster: To the Body Represented, the Free People in General of the Several Counties, Cities, Townes, Burroughs, and Places Within This Kingdome of England, and Dominion of Wales. and in Especiall, to His Excellency Sir Thomas Fairfax (Captaine Generall) and to All the Officers and Souldiers Under His Command. By Richard Overton, Prisoner in the Infamous Goale of Newgate, for the Liberties and Freedomes of England. (London: [s.n.], Printed in the yeare, 1647). <Link to ESTC>
Theme
Innate Ideas
Date of Entry
06/22/2005
