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Show at War And Pt4Ct bv it felf , doth more the mind th!tn the ~Which vke right; ( to wit , defire of honour*, or cfpecially flat· fome profit, whether private or publick , tersus wirha which is expe6ted from the war confiderd lbhuetwSo. fAveurgtuu-e; a part from its J.'u G:ifi,c k c. aufe :) or el[!e , to r ftin well ad vi- that an affc6bon plamly unla wfu\1 is felh,faying, It with him , as the joy of one pleafino is better un· himfelfin anothers evil withollt r~fpect of ~rgo thfe y good. So ..liri{fides in his fecond De Jo. :mameo an . r.. h h Ph .r. 'fh d · cowardire ctetate 1a1t , t e ocen1es pen e de-than feek ~he fervedly, but Phi lip did not well when he glory o~fuch ddhoyed them, not being Gudious of re4 a~m.s: L1 ~·3· de lioion which he -pretended b t b' tHJU. De; '•I • • v . . . ' U am 1· · ~ ttous to enlarge h1s Emptre. Profound am-bitiofJ and avarice , as Salluft fpeaks, u one cau{e ofwar, and that an old one. And Tacitus [aith,qoldand Power are the prin4 ~ 'l(_~ptrle f~~u cipal caufes of wars *~ Whither you may 11/J}JUS UCr'l; U· J" C h f s . . ror, Eti.ra PYtt· a 10 re1~r t at o _. ~uguftm t; 7Jefire etps. Sen. tlip· of hurtmg, Cruelty of revenging , an un· pol. pet~~ceabl-e and unplacable mind, (iercenefl t C'ntra Ftmft. ofrebel!ing, tuft o{ domineering and the l.:u. '· 1+ · l t"L\.} , t he .Jr:e are t he t- ht ·n f:S t ha t m· w' ars are "rbo. 2., 2.. 74. jujf!y blamed. But thefe,where a jufi cau(e ~~. 2. is not wanting, do indeed argue a crime , yet_ do they not make the war properly un JUll; whereupon , neither is reftitution due forth~ fame. · XCV, The Je~ond Part; C XV, Of doubtfull caufes. whence Doubts do artfe in moral matters. IT is moll true , ~hich .r?riftotle ha:h I Eth. N:c. x. written that there ts not io much cerntude in m'oralls, as in the Mathematicks : becaufe, the Math~maticks fe_para te forms 1 • from all matters , and the forms , moll part ' are fuch , that they h_a ve nothing* 'f 1~ ha_ n:utatf/1 interpo!ed, as between llratght and croo- fir .u ~ .,~·":- ke d t he re .1 s no m.e dt ttm ; B uc ·t n m.oJ.a I'J s, (nM'r ~or~,mb.al stSt4' even the leaH c1rcumGances vane the tVide chryfo{lomatter, and the forms here are wont to mum ad 4• epb, have [omething t between them , with :.. J:torllli. fuch latitude , that the accefs is neerer fometimes to this extreme , fometimes to that. For io , twixt that which ought to be done, and that which ought not to b~ done , is interpofed that which may be done , but is neerer, now to this, now to the other part: whence ambiguity arifeth often, as in the dusk air, or in warm wa-ter. And this is that which Ariftotle faith, Oftentimes it is bard to judge, whic:h is to~· Nifom~ be preferd. ~ndronicus Rhodius faith .; It is to diJcern that which is truly juft, from tha! which [em1eth fo. C VI. · .. |
