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Show The Preface. all kind of mifchief. ln contempla· tion of which irnmanity, many good M'cn have gone fo far, as to deny all ,. Tertulli:~n. Arms* to a Chriftian, whofe Reli-cie refurreet. . . {"ft h h' fl · Ch · carnis: Gla· g1on COn 1 Ct C lC Y, 10 . anty Ji •ts bene de toward all the world : m whtch opt· be{tfJ cmtwtltJ_, nion fecms to be fometimes both Cl- mt / IDT bomz- ' "dt1, :joharmes F erus :~ and my Country. man Erafinus, great Lovers of Peace both Ecclefiaftical and Civil; but with that in rent, as I fuppofe, wherewith we arc wont .to bend what il . ·c~·ooked .to the other fide, that it mar return into ftraitnefs. Yet indeed 1 this endeavour of too much contra· di6hon, is often times io far from being profitable, that it burrs, be· £.aufe it is eafily found, that excefsin 1 tome fayin.gs takes away authority fox other , even when· they fiano ~*~in the limits· of truth. Where· · f..ore both Parties had need of a Mo· por~tor., tJ1atit might appear,. Nei· ~her fJQthing ,. 11or every thJng u taw· full. , .) · · · ·: i ~nd wid1.41l, my Ddign was, br ply private ·ftudy and dili~nce, to advance the profeflion of the Laws~ · · · · whid The· Preftct. which heretofore in publick Offices I had exercifed with as much integrity as I could : This comfort of my ftudies was left me , after I was unworthily call out of myownCountrey , honour' d by fo many Labours of mine. Many, before me, ba~e purpofed to bring this into a form of Art, but no man hath done it perfeetly: Nor is it poffible , unlefs (which hitherto hath not be~n done with care enough) the things which arc: by Conftitution be rightly [eparated from Natural. For, Naturals, becaufe they are alwaies the fame may eafily be collected into Ate-~ but the things that come from Cortftitution , becaufe d1ey are often changed, and are divers in dive·rs places, are put without Art, as other precepts .of fingul.ar things. Neverthclcfs, tf the Pnefts-of true J uftic-e would nrtdcrtakc to ~itdlc the parts of natu!al an~ . perpetual Jurifprud~ ( laymg afide what hath lts ong1nal from free -will,) One of Laws, anoth(r of Ttib'utes, another of. th~ Jud&el Office, ano~her of the I 'I Jt )f-4 • con- |
