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Show An..tlltMl , . "fell: hath neither ta· ~nd this, tts ma?1 11 'punifhments nor k en a""" 'll{r cap1· ta rot tht.s La w (/ VV Vllere ore , Dl . , . ~h~t doth n<Qt fo much conHuutc aamn y new h' o as declare and repeat t mt), . bl' d I the' old naturall Law o Iterate aQa d b evill cu1lom. And the deprda ycr~ fo be underftood in a fenfe wor s a ... , · · h wor~ whtch includes a crin;te : as m t ~ . h , . . Je w' e underftand not evety kil· ormcu~ , . h . ling ot a ma~, but that whtc ts on pur· . ofe a~d of an innocent perfon. 1hat ~hich follows, of Jheddin~ blood f6r blooJl feems to me not to. contam a naked aal but a Right. I ~xplain it thus. By f~· ture it is n~t un juft, that every E>ne . fer as much eviU as he hath d?ne; ~ of a fenfe of th'ts natural~. equtty, (ml accus' d of paricide· ~y hts own con· fcience 'faid, Whojoe'Tier. findethfi '/:e.fo~ Gcq.4-14, JlaJ me. But , God in' thofe. mf ttme~ en either by reafon of the pauct~y o m l or becaufe there being yet but few o~~~ d · lary punilhments were ers, exemp, rr d b his edit\ t~l neceffary' repreue y d a which feemed naturally l.awfull, an t pointed the manflayers company toTII avo'tded not his life taken away. like' was' decree·d b·y •· Plato ·m h*1' 5 L·a P\VaI· :t Euripides. and of old pra6tized in Crute • ·ml ~u•rn bert~ tinent ii th,a~ of* Thucydi.tles: _A11~'e ~ ~~rentum pro- • t cD trttll'f' it 'llit~ dttttltrt 1l tllflznPI!Ig~t JtMm l'tet Mllt M (lltUf14t • UF ~~~- -llltrl#. trifll rJDIIltlhtl f'elfiA,* Hiflli Jltrtlttl fll'eriS,J 11~o-ZJ · J: · 1 f!ll I g. gr.cttt crimes had litttle punijhmcnts *: ,. Se,vius 2d 6Ht in prt~,grefl Qf time, thofe being con- Il£n. Ltmh, temned~ death Wfll inflieted. F.l'Om one f~'f.fi.ot11.tt~f., fjlt bl .a. . a b . d f me. ermo 4 pt4 nota . c avL a con JC ure emg ma · e ~ cunia dcfctn-the di~ine pleafure went into a L3.w: fu dtt; Anttqtmi/. that Lame,ch aUo, upon the like crime enim p~n~ ~mcommitted *, pr.omifed t\J bimCelf impu- nts pwmzarzte m·c y fir :om t ha t examp 1e . N cver.t he j1e f .s , {.u4fdl'hlmuct .m im 'Vi-- when before tl.1e floud, in the Gyants debat~~r neftU, ag.e, a promifcuous licence of .O.edding quam'lllJ malos, blood ha.Q. prevailed mankind beit~o a- tame~ ~~~mm!s, gam• renf1.o re d a· fit er t h' e nn ou d, Go.d , to1 ') rc- tfiu&p pa/IjCjiImO e&.l lLjJIa- - tf~ain that licence, thought it meet to aant.l z.. ufe more fevericy; and laying af~e the Gcn.4. ~4· l~nity .of th~ former times, permitted ,. 0 rather now what nature did before di&ate not [ltn h\~:j ~h~ to bP. un juG:, that he fh!)4ld be guiltlets fi~:~J1 for the who flew the man-Gayer *. This, af .. words bear ter Courts of Jultice were efiabliihed, th!s fenfe. was unl)n ,very ereat reafons re£hained "'Jofeph~s. . to the rJ udges onv ly : yet fo that fome Eazco ut 4 c.e .. dchumana ptt• Print of thefonner GtJllom Wa$ feen, e- r.e hAhtanrur . ven afcer Mofe.r Law, in his right, V\lho manm; quod {i was the next Kinfinan to the perf on 9~14 e~dcm comfla ln . We ha ve no mean Author to fmtriaftm. t ' pa:nam countenance our int~rpretation. Abra-ham, who being not ignorant of the Law given t;, l>[oah, took arms again{[ the £our King~, not doubting but his enter-prize was very rec·<mcilable 'With that law. A11d Mofes too uave order that the Amalckjtes violence lhould be with-flood by Arms, uling the rioht of n:~turc : · for it appears not that God wa.s confu1- E~oJ. 1.7. 9 . C 2 ted |