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Show of W~tr 11nd Pt~tce flain becaufe they could noa be brouoht unde; [ervitude:which Plutarch al[o h~th noted in the life of Otho, and Tacitm in the fccond_ of his HiH:ories. XL I. Thu right over Captives prev4i. Jed not among ali Nations , nor doth it prevAil a71;ong Chriftilms. NOtwithllanding, we muH know,thi1 Law of Nations concerning Captives hath not been always receiv'd,nor among all Nations ; though the Roman Lawyers , [peak univerfally, fiyling the moreno· D~ur. 1. 3· If, table part by the name of the whole. So, Ysdt pert tctp.t o- a monon the Hebrews , who were [eot> rcoated ~:> rr~ v tanuum by fpecial Ordinances from the commu• 1 o. nity of other people , refuge was granted unto fervants,namely thofe (as Imerpre· ters righly obferve ) who fell into that calamity by no fault of their own. And Btfrt,in f. ho(leJ. Chrillians t have generally agreed, that 'D. dec~(Jt. fuch as are taken in War between them Covar. 11J t. b r b ptccatum. p, :z., iliould not ecome 1ervancs , to e tt. 11. "· 6. fold , to be forced to work , and fuffer t The Eifcncs the like ferv'tle things. Very jullly; be· 3 lfo' from caufe they had, or ouoht to have, learned whom the firfi b f h C 0 d f 11 Ch · C. h ·n.· ctter o t e ommen ator o :1 • an· r i n , an~ h k'Jl' ,ook begin- ty , t~ha.n not to be kept from t e 1 wg ning. Sc:e Jofe- of miferable men , except by conceffion of phus. a leis cruelty. And . that this-hath ~alfed heretofore from the Ancellors to thetr po· ficrity , among profeffors of the fam_e _Re· llgton, Tht third PtWI. ligion, qregortU t hath written; nor,was t. Greporas ; it proper to the Subje6h of the Roman hb. 4~ r.. . b . h h r-r'h . rr. 1. Mol h1e eff Au Emptre, ut coi?mo~ Wlt t eJ' eJJa z_ans, a11tiquodedu- IllJrians , Trtbal!tans and Bulg;artans. tteu, 11d poflt. Thus hath the reverence of the Chrillian ros ,_propter. Law dfe6ted this at leafi , though it be fides con[~rtJutn, budinall, wht.c h Socrates of ol d ,w h en he uint pmr.t dqaum,d'eUmIY · would have perfwaded the Greeks to ob- ttreliu at, hoferve toward one another , could not ob- mints autem tein ---. The fame do the .Mahumetans al- nee ca, tiv?sfit-h r 1 · h' cert nee Jnter- [o obferve .among t e~l~ ves m t lS fleer: extrA · point *, whtch the Chnfitans do. Yet , Jrttlii ttil'pUI; even amono the Chrillians , hath remai- ,. Plato f,de ned a cull~m to keep the Captives, un- ~epub. til a ranfom be paid, whole valuation is dClhl~lbcocon .. at the pleai-ure o f t he c onquerour ; u~- Lycu.n cl la• v3. ' lib. lefs a certainty were agreed on. And thts 3-& 17. Bufright of keeping the Captives is ufually beq~ius epift. granted all that have taken them , except cxoucarum.J. the perfons of eminent place and digni-ty; for , over thefe , the manners of moll Bart. i11l. n•m; Na u.o ns gt.v e a n.g ht to t he -c ommon- &&t gf.e grev.f liJv. . de wealth , or to the head thereof. Boer. decif.t18. co~fl. Reg. Hifi,tib. 8.tit. J.l,p111.1.. XLII. |