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Show of war ant/ PeAce Concerning Laurentinm and Ignatim vf[ricans, the[e are ~he ~ord~ of Cyprian , Being Sot-t!dters m the fecular warfare , but fpiritual Souldiers too, phtHf they get the vi&ury over the De' tlil hy the confeffion of Chrift, they have obtained., by their paffion , vtCloriom palms ~ml glorious Crow11s of theit Lord. · XXX. Further proof out of Ecclcji~tfti· . cal Hijfory. , fRom the former teflimooics ~t is evi-· dent, what opinion the community, of Chri!lians had of ·War, even before the Emperours were Chriillan. If, in thole times, the Chri!lians were n~t willingly pre~ent at capital punHhments, it may not iecm a womier, when for the moft part Chril.tians were . the per· fons cond\..mnecl. Adde hereunto, that *. Cujll! a~p_e· in other mattersalfo, the Roman Laws r-ua:~ai,tetm\dmriiatnlu· s were har de t h Ch '(t' 1 · \d t an . /~ ~n ~mty ~ou h Imp. ~t apud fuffer, as app~ars .1Umc1ent y , . t oug Spart anu~ we in{bnce only m the *. SJ!ttman De· eO:. Afpens cree of Senate. But, after Conftantine JlJ 0~ban~:.Ud~ beoan both to appt·o,.e and advance peo~f,f lulsn tqu~ theo C h rii l ia, n nn e1 t' g.t on, cap1. ta·1 punt· (h • tcrvum ni.fi menu. did not therefore cenfe. Yea tonu.m te~i- Conffantine himfelf, among·other Laws, monlumdJCC· maie one about fowina ·UP .paricides re vet ant. L · t) • the *Tit. de iis in a. fack: which aw 1s extant m , 'qUi par. vel Tode * : though otherwife in exa6tmg lib. occiic-: puni{hments he was {o gentle, that ~e ~r& , lS ·s. isaccus'd oftoo much"' lenity by !orne • z~aras: Hif·io rians. Befctd'e s, He had in his Ar- clernmttm~ my very many hn .n fl.t· ans,. as l H 'l tJ{Jendeb«t 1t~ t 1e ll o- qui p,r(lvam vi~ ries do teach us, and infcribed oil his t1m.4efermrtmt. Enfion the name of Chrifi.: And from quod dicere~ a~-. that ~·une was the military oath chan- {tintlendll~ ·. d · h c · r.r · membr11;n ~tf.rl• ge mto t at IOr~n, ex.tant m r tgett~~ : ta1ls ac putri- · By God and Chnft. and the HolJ Sptrtt; ~um.,n~ fan~ and by the Majefly of th~ Emperour, cuntifg}O &or·. nextafterGod. to be/ov'd and homur'drumpat~ no~•tl ~Y: man~in~. And at that time, ·among ;:,~dj!:}j;~:; fo f!!~lly Btfi1ops,, of whom. many had (a?JefCa~. , ·\''id~ fufter d, very much for Rdi~ton, rwe do & E~febium. not re~d of any one, who deterred ei- ~ .c~r de: ~~~ia ther £onf1.ar~tine wholy from capital Con~:~..n~":' . J• · . ChnlhaQ{)J p~n11 lments,~nd.frol~ War, or the Clm- ita ~e ~arafcU ~hans from iervwg 1n the War , by re~;ls qhdlos · threatning them wirh the w1·ath of Danci5 :1pud · God for the fame : wien yet c'here were Sax~:mc:m. Hi~ 11 • • 'd k f . r ftonaJm &n• ·v~r~ , many trton rtgt, eep.ers o . D11- venia•. .JI · .ctp!me, and fuch as would not Jdtifem- ·. · • hle or pafs by any thing . that pertained,· ~- 1 • ' u .eithercothe Office of the 'Emperours or ! 1' ~ l.' • of other men. Such a Prelate was Am-- brofe in the time of Theodojitu; whof~ words.are thefe : It u no (in to he a Serm. 1~ S•~tldter; .but, for a. Sou!Jitr to fight for thhe fpo 1 tL onlr, rJ.hlAt ~s a ~nb. ~n11d ~. Dt Ojjic. 1,1; anot er p ace: •, 14 oHr, whit ~t.t er m c. , 7• · • War defends o~r CpuntrJ from :&trkari .. am, or At horne defends tht wea~, or ourJrundsfrom . r~hberJ, is full of ;uftice. Th1s Argument ts to me of fo much . weigh~, that ~ rcqu.ire p.o mor~. Yet. · ~ am |