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Show I . ' \ Agid~. Of W.,r ~ttd Pt4Ct are killed by chance,noton purpofe, war and the manner of waging it w~re muft remember, it is a pal't of mercy, confiderd by the Romam: whom yet C:. of Jufiice, not without great cawfes uro and others do confels to have been fuch as coqduce to the fafety of rna .. fomewhat too fharp in the ufe ·of Vi eta. to enterprize 1uch a thing, whence ry. VVherefore M. v£milius Paulu.r, in chon may come upon the innocent. -~iodorus Sicu/us,not amils admonifhe[h Po!Jbius is of this mind , fa~ihg: # is Lib. f. the Roman Senators,in the Caule o Per. the part of good men, not to wage a dt:- feus: If ther feared nothmg human ,yet ftructive War, no not with the bad; !Jilt fo theJ fhou/d fear divine revenge, tmminent far,th~t offences may be repairdand ~men-over them tht~t ~t[e their v irtory withtoo Jed: not, tn invohe the innocmtwtth the much pride and infolence. And Plutarch g11tlt] in the fame rume ; but for the innonotes, in the war~ among the Greeks,the cent, to fpare rhe guilty alfo. XLV. Children, Women, old Men~ Priefl:s , Schoilftrs, husbandmen , are to be [p,zred. ' · very enemies held their hands from the 1 L acedemonian Kings , in reverence of their dignity. An enemy therefore , chat will regard, not that wh:ch human Laws permit, but that whkh is his duty, that which is good and pious , vvi11 {pare even an Enemies blood: and will put none co death, but to a void death himf~lf,or fonx. what like death, or els for fim properco the perfon , which amount to capital of· fences. And yet , to fome that deferve death , he will forglve, either all purtilhment, or that of death i either for huma• UPon thofe premi'es,'twil not be hard to determine of the (pedals that fol- , low. Let age e:>.:cu[e a chzld, Jex a wo- L.1b• 5· s+o rrw• faith Seneca in the Books where he . Lib. 17. nity fake , or for other· probable caufes. Excellently faith the now-cited Diodorus Sicu/us : Exp ugn;~.tionsofCities, prof_pe- * C . A. rous fi.:rrhts, ~tnd whatf'oever is in War jllc· urt us • - o r d r. +. lexa1lcltr,q~am- ce[Jull , mort often procet. Jrom l_rtu~ 9uambel/i a11· than from valour: but, m the ht{heft qori~us poterat power, to beftow mer'r upon the Conque• Jra{~l , tame! red is the -work,_ of Providence alone*, . 1. san,g ry w.n h Anger. G od h't m I.e I f, t. nt he Dc. ur.ao. 14, warsofthe H ebrews,even after peace otftrd and refus'd, will have women and infants fpared; befidesa few Nu.ions excepted by fpecial command;againfi which the war that was, wai not of men, but of God· and fo 'twas called. And when he order~d theMadianitt.Jh wome to be !1ain, for a proper crime of theirs , he excepted Virgins that were untoucht. Yea , when he had very feverely threatned. the Ni-. ommbsu wma . ' · · h " h f h ~fts with defiruttion fortheirlllofi bei-data 1 Now , concern102 t e tlaug ter o t em, • · · "' who · nous |