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Show of WAr M~l PeAce v· nee the po£feffor of the in juflicc of his p~£feffion: The reafon is, becaufe he hath no rioht to compell the -other to depart out ofhis po£feffion .. And la!tly , ~here both the rioht is ambtguous , and netther po£fe£feth ~or Both equally, .there he is to be thouoht unjuft, who rqeeteth the offered divifion of the thing in controverfy. - C X I X. whether war may be ju[f on both fides. OUt of the premifes may be determined that ~efl:ion agitated by many , whether War, ref pea being had. of them that are the princi pa.l Movers of 1t , may on both fides be juft. F~r , the various acceptwns of the word JU.ft are to t sic Grati~tnus be diHioouiilied t· A thing is called juH, tau{ .a II ·. 11. J. eitber frgm the taufe, or according to the /Wd.ft~.c. ~pz(c.fl. effceEts From tl.e caufe again , either in a z mg1t~t JU ,_ . • . • • . h tiam ca~~{.e, or- fpecialaccept:lon of JU{hce , or 111 ~ at g~- dinu, animi. mral ufe of the word , as all re6htudc IS fo ~ailed. The {pecial acception is again divided into that which perteineth to the work_, and that which perteineth to .the . wor~r. Foi' the worker himfelf fomeume may be faid to_ do jufUy , as oft as he dot~ T6 JJ'uwir .,.o t:- t unJ"ufl:ly thouoh that which be doth /) I rT no ) l) d" fl' L ·1/,Cb' ijh'~" ctr~ be not juft: So A riJfo tle r·Igndy tntn· ' -~. .c.I • d ftl d t do that &. 11. Rhu . . r. gu ifheth to o unj$1 y , an o 13. Artgu{t.bb. which is unju_(t. War cannot be on both If. tie c. D. c. -fides J·ua in the a~c'eption fpe . ial andre· f• COTJNYo &&. . , Jated The fec~ntl 433 1ated to. the thing ic felf, as a fute in Law neither ; becaufe a moral fa cui tie to con .. , trai"ies, to wit, both to a& and to hinder, is not granted b}' nature. But , that neither of the parties warring may do unjuftly , is poffible; for no man doth un jufily, But . he that alfo .knows he doth an. unjuH thing: and many are ignorant of that. So 1nay a fute be ,followed jufily, that is, With an honelt mind , on bgch fi~es. For, many things , both in point of right and fa& , whence right arifech, are wont to efcape men. In a g~neral acception , juft is wont to be called that which is without all fault of tbe Doer. And many things without right are done without fault through ignorance inevi .. table. An example whereof is in them , who obferve not the Law, which without their fault they are ignorant of, after tl1e law it felf is promulged , and time fufficient by it_f~lf for knowledge hath paffed. So aHo m ~a~-futes i_t may happen, t~at both parties may be free from injufhce and all other blame, efpeciall y where both parties, or either , godh co law not in his own but anothers name, to wit, by t~e office of a Tutor or Guardian, whofe ducy !s not to d:fert an~ righ~ though un- , certam. So Ariftotle faith, en contentions 3· Rhetor. c~ ~ of C'Ontr~:verted right ,neith~r is -iaJ»y'r,wic- 1! · ~ k!d. ~~~whom fl.!tintilitm agrees, when Lib.~. s. he fa1th It ~ay come w pafs, rhat an Ora-tor, that 1s, a B~od man may plead_, on Ff luth |