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Show 'ilu • : 'fheotlo(ill4 and :juftini~t1J, and in th~ Novef Conftitutions. The fl~en rank are they that {ucceeded Irm·zus '. viz Accurjius, BttrtoiNs, and anum- . J be~ of names more, that a long ni?e reigned in the Court. In th~ thtrd place we have tho~e , who Joyned polite Learning wtth the ftudy of Law To theftr/l I owe much: for they ·do both often afford excellent reafons , to demonftrate that which is of the Law of Nature; an<J often yield tdrmony to the fatne ~aw, and no leis to the Law of N attons : But thus, that they, as well as others, often confound thcfe names; yea, and· call that the Law -of Nat ions, which is ooely of rome people ; and tpat, not as on Agrcem~nt , ~ur., which fome have receiv d by 1m1· tation of othe-rs, or by chanc~. lk fides they often handle what ts truly of the Law of Nations, promifcu· oufly and indiftinCtly., with thofe things which are oft he Roman L~w:. as appears by the Title, De Capt.tf()# ' &· pojllimin~~· That. thefe thtngl · the!efotc nugh~ ~~ d1fc;e_rned 'h:V~ The· Prefou. have taken fome pains.· The /econrl fort, incurious of Divine Law; and of antient Hill:orie , was ple;afed to define all the Controverfies of Kings' and Nations out of the Roman Laws, affuming now and then the ~an~~s • .But th.efe men,alfo, by the mfchctty of thetr times , were hindred from a right infight into thofe Laws, bci~g otherwife fubtil enough to fearch tnto the nature of Right and Good: whence it comes, that they are often very good Aut hots of Law to be made, even when -they aJ;e bad Inte rpreters of Law made before. But the~ chie.A.y are th~y to be heard, when they bear witnefs to fucb. a Cufiom that makes the Law of N tions of our times. The Maftcrs of the third or.der, who· confine tliemfelves to the Roman Laws, a~d expatiate , either never ; or very \tghtly, into that which is ~ammon, have fcarce any ufe in our .(\rg~nlenr. Two Spaniards, Co· r;;~rruvi111 and Yafquit~s (the lattelj wuh great liberty rthe other more ~odcUly ) a{ld mit without exaCt - •* « :If 3 J•U dg e- |