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Show ~o Of War ~nJ Puce ted with in this . Moreover, c~pitall pu· · ndhmeuts ~ it appears, were uled not a- Gcn.3s.~_.. oamft man-£1aycrsonly, but other Ma· lefaaors · and that as well among the holy people a.s other nations: By_ the aid of natural! rcafon , havmg lome oround to make con jeC\:ure of the divine ~ill, they proceeded from like to like, and colleeted, that the conflitution a· · oamft the man-ilayer, mi~ht extend al· b • ~ ~ io to other notorious and great onen· ders. For, fome things there are equall umo life, as reputation, virginal! chafiity,conjugall fi~elity; or without which lite cannot be lecure, as re verence to authorit_y, whereby fociety is. preier· vcd : Offenders againi-l the[ e ieem no better than man-ilayers. Hither per· tains an old tradition extant among tne Hebrews, t hat more aws were given /.. unto Noal/ s Sons by qod, bu: t?Uof11 ( did not relate them all, . becaule 1t wa1 fufficietit for his purpofe, that they wet( after comprehended in the peculiar Law of the Heb ·ews; io, ::~gainfi: inceiluoUl Marriaoe there was extant an old L~-N, b' . f though not remembred by Mofes in ru · p1ace, asappeus Levit.IS. And amon: the Laws God gave to Noah's children, this alfo they (a y was dccreec, th~t n~ only homicides, but adulteries, mce_~1 and rapes fhould be puni01cd wru death ·which is confirmed by the wor~ Chap.3f.~· of Job: Alfo, the Law ~iven by Ulffr The FJrjl Part." 21 fes :tddes unto the capi~all fantl:ions reafons, that are of no lefs value amon; . others, then among the Hebrew people .. :::: peculiarly it is faid of homicid~ tha~ • As Letir.18. the earth cannot be purged but. b~ the ~}:1 ~~-. blood_-fl:ed of the rnan-ilayer ". · Be- Prov,1 o.1.· fides, tt 1s abfin·d to think, the Hebrew "'Nunl,.&J.JI, people were allowed to fecure their Go- 3 J• vernment, and the publtck and private fafety' by c.a pi tall punilhmems, and to bear ~rrns for their own defence, but o-ther Kmgs and N ations ac the iame rime were not aliowed to do io . and yet were never ~dmonilht by th; Prophets kfo' r ufVin g cap1tal punithments a n d ma- ~ tng Var, as they were oft reprov'd I or other fins. Yea on the contr:u h would not believe fceino 7'-~0.fe ry 'd"!". 0L . ' o .LY.liJi .r Ju lCJa 1 ~w lS a~ exprefs ofthe divi ne pleafure, ot er Natt?ns who would take a Co .' thence, dtd well and wi1dy : as i·/i~ prob~ble the Greeks, eipecially the A.: '-. themans did ? whence there is ro o fi ·1· d · 11 reat Htn ltu em the old Attick Law a db h oTf- fl · h · ' n t e trmg ~ ercof, the Roman of the I 2. a les, Wtth the Hebrew Laws Th' . h lh • lS lS enouo to ew that the L · .Noah · ! . aw gtven to h . ~~ not o.fiuc~· a fenfe as they would A ave Jt, .whotmpu~n a.ll VVari by that rgument. • , XIII. Of |