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 1 [Title]|     reduce his words to direct, positive, intelligible propositions,
 2 1      |      right of fatherhood, or by positive donation from God, any such
 3 1      |      being no law of nature nor positive law of God that determines
 4 12     |     studier of that law, as the positive laws of commonwealths; nay,
 5 20     |    state of nature, for want of positive laws, and judges with authority
 6 30     |        have made and multiplied positive laws to determine property,
 7 45     |      countries, and so have, by positive agreement, settled a property
 8 50     |        of land is determined by positive constitutions.~
 9 52     |      And accordingly we see the positive law of God every where joins
10 59     |         of nature, or under the positive laws of an established government.~
11 81     |       under no restraint of any positive law, which ordains all such
12 96     | assemblies, impowered to act by positive laws, where no number is
13 96     |        no number is set by that positive law which impowers them,
14 118    |          are not bounded by the positive limits of kingdoms and commonwealths.~
15 122    |    actually entering into it by positive engagement, and express
16 128    |       natural community, and by positive agreements combine into
17 134    |       the first and fundamental positive law of all commonwealths
18 136    |    without contradiction to any positive law of scripture, otherwise
19 141    |    derived from the people by a positive voluntary grant and institution,
20 141    |         no other than what that positive grant conveyed, which being
21 147    |        by antecedent, standing, positive laws, than the executive;
22 152    |         them, beyond what is by positive grant and commission delegated
23 157    |      society, antecedent to all positive laws in it, and depending
24 163    |     part of it to be defined by positive laws: for in so doing they
25 168    | antecedent and paramount to all positive laws of men, reserved that