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Show The Prefdce_ cop jeCl:ure of Wills, aflother of pro· ving Facts, thereupon might be compofed a Body of all parts col· lected. What courfe we thought fit to t~ke , we have £hewed in deed, rather than words = this work, con. taining that part of J urif- prudence, which is by far mofi: noble. For in the firft Book, having firft fpoken of the 0 riginal of Right and Law, we have examined that queftion, Whe· ther any War be juft and lawful!, After, to know the difference 'twixt pnblick and private War, we hac to explain the nature of the Supreme .Power; what States and Kings have it full , what in part; what ,with right of alienatien, what other· wife. Lafl: of all , we had to fpea~ ~f the duty of Subjects towards lheif ~uperio\lrs. The fecond Boox .. ,~pounds w.hat arc the Caufe1 w;hen_ce War may rife : And there we fpeak of Community ·and Prg, priety , Leag\les, Oaths, Ewbafia· ges, , Pupithments , . &c. The thirJ .~ook having .~xppunded Wbatjs·laW· #~11 ~~ ~he tiJUe. of War~_ a9~ d~ftind. . -- · gU1a1e The Prefdcei guHhed what is done without fault; from what is done without pumfhment , ends with Arguments and Peace. Now this Argument feemed the more worthy of ~ur pains, bccaufe, as I have faid, no man hath handled the whole ; and , they that have handled the parts , have fo handled them, that they have left much for anothers Indufl:ry. The old Philofophers have nothing extant in .this kind , neither the Greeks , among whom Ariflotle made a Book, entituled, 1)1!5i40:wn• -w.tp.a~• , nor They that gave their name to new Chriftianifm (which was much to be wilhed:) And the Books of the old "Romans, .De jure Feciau, have tranfmitted ~o ~s nothing of themfelves, but the Title. I have fcbh alfo fpe. cial BooksrDt fure BeUi ; partly by Divines J .viz. FrancifcJU YiCt1oria; HenrifUS. Gorfchtmm , , • Wt-1helmtd. Matthg,* ~ 'partly 1 by Doctors of* Add to there Law, .viz'. }anne.., Lttptu, Fran- ] vtmncsdecar- ; r; . !1'. • thagtnA , fct etJc~s Ar111J i ~ ';roamtes de Lig»a.n~-, forth ~t TJ.ome, ~~t¥!u~ 'L~denfts ~: · ~u~ all thhefc A.n. 1609• • 1 ave |
