Few human rights were recognized in the European Middle Ages; then every man belonged to someone else, and rights were only privileges or favors granted by state or church. And the revolt from this error was equally erroneous in that it led to the belief that all men are born equal.
Close in meaning, found by a language model. A match does not mean the teachings are the same.
because these first welcomed with feastings, and then afflicted with dreadful toils, those who had already shared with them in the same rights.
For when lawless men had supposed that they held a holy nation in their power, they, prisoners of darkness, and bound in the fetters of a long night, kept close beneath their roofs, lay exiled from the eternal providence.
Both servant and master were punished with the same just doom, and the commoner suffering the same as king;