There’s No Resisting of a Common Enemy; No Maintaining of a Civil
Community, without an Union for a Mutual Defence; and there may be also,
on the Other Hand, a Conspiracy of Common Enmity and Aggression. There
are Cases indeed of Great Nicety that fall under the Topique of the
Right and Lawfulness of Joyning in such Leagues. He that is not _Sui
Juris_, must not Enter into any Covenants or Contracts to the Wrong
of his Master: But there are Certain Rules of Honesty, and Methods of
Government, to Direct us in all Agreements of This Quality. A Thing
simply Good in it self, may become Unjust and Unrighteous, under such and
such Circumstances. In a Word, the Main Bond of All Bodies and Interests
is Union, which is No Other in Effect then a Common Stock of Strength and
Counsel Joyn’d in One. While the _Bulls_ kept together, they were Safe;
but as soon as ever they separated, they became a Prey to the _Lyon_.