And so lunatics and ideots are never set free from the government of their parents; /# children, who are not as yet come unto those years whereat they may have; and innocents which are excluded by a natural defect from ever having; thirdly, madmen, which for the present cannot possibly have the use of right reason to guide themselves, have for their guide, the reason that guideth other men which are tutors over them, to seek and procure their good for them, #/ says Hooker, Eccl.Pol.lib.i.sec.

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All which seems no more than that duty, which God and nature has laid on man, as well as other creatures, to preserve their offspring, till they can be able to shift for themselves, and will scarce amount to an instance or proof of parents regal authority.
Sect.61.Thus we are born free, as we are born rational; not that we have actually the exercise of either: age, that brings one, brings with it the other too.

And thus we see how natural freedom and subjection to parents may consist together, and are both founded on the same principle.

A child is free by his father's title, by his father's understanding, which is to govern him till he hath it of his own.