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Show ·or Wt~r 'ttt!tl Peace . f16 'J • d that capttal ~ Now, .1 t beina prove ' r. h o ·iohtly ufed 1111ce t e puniibments ar~ fir ft is -wit hall proved, comtningof Chn ' e War may be lawas I fuppofe, that f~m aoainfi a multitude -fully -waged, td wtt, V:ho mufi be over· ()farmed etten :ls, before they can be come in battat ' For the. forces h ·udaement. • - broug t to J o d h ir boldneis to re· of offenders, an t d:liberation it hath £ft, as in a prut~~t diminHheth nothing fame moltl~nt,. f L iHy the Law of oftherightit iel · a-wa , the Law of ChriO: hath tak~ : w!s the partition ]Vlofes only' ~ ~enttles and the He· ;Eph.,,t4~ wall betwee~ t s e by nature honei~, .and brev.rs. Thmg f civil nations, !tiS fo by the confe.nt~ o ~ that it hath com· far from takmo ~w afi under the . genenl prehe.nded the ft and virtue. But, J>hil.4.S. prec~pt of all hone ~ es and Arms to J cor.n.13, the punHhmentof cnm ' ted laudablt ' ff · · are accoun l. ~+ , keep o tn)ury d . referred to ~~~ in their Nature, an dateb ficence. An~ . "irtue of J·U Gice an (etn en ote the1·r er· here, on tneby, -w~ m~raelites right to ror who draw t e h God bad or~· W;r from this alone,t a.t Land.l:lF~ ted to' t h en1 t h e C1a naamfe tethso ur;h it be ' , this is not the on y cha~ 'times, tnen ~ 1. Before t 01e r v.raa~ juh one. db their rea1on; ~~. piety' condu&e lf?aelites themfehes v~ Wars : and ~he arounds, as V4 terward u~oln _othe~f %:)his Emba~a~f. for the "1o at1on Be11u .. Betides, what any one poffeffeth by hu. mane right, is no lefs his own, than if God had made an immediate grant there· of; which rightisnot take1;1 away (but confil'med) by the Gofpel. I XXI. OhjeCfiom anfwered. The .firft. LEt us now alfo fee, by what Arguments the oppofite. opinion underprops it felf, that the pious Reader may more eafily judge, which of the two is · more firm and weighty. The firft is u- 31 fually brought out of Efay•s prophe- . . , cy * who faith it fhall come to pais Er. '· 4, that' the Natio;s [hall 6eat their [word; *fd deb.p2ce . m. to pto w-Jh ares, an d t he z.r fJp ears m. to tqiugi~t obre n1 ccliocnio• pruning-hook! : Nation jhall not lift up Rom~ni Imf- r.1ord againft Nation, neither Jha!l they perii inrerpre..: learnWar any more. But this prophecy, tatu~Chrylof!'• either is to be underftood (as many o- ~ratio«. thn~ ther) conditionally: Such fhall be the u::::eN~IJ"~fiate of things, if all people undertake 'f.lero prt#diClMifJ and fulfil the Law of Chrift · to which tantu• eft, fla. purpofe God will fuffer no~hina to be biltmfore, im- . h' S bh . . m~tam, atque :wammg on . 1~ part : ur~ enoug It. JS, inconcuflafll 1f all be ChnHians, and hve Chrilhan- IIane religi•nemt; ftd c11m t• atl' VtntU~Am orbi pacem, dcfitur~t~ iO.u in f;ngulu ei11itatibus plMritmJ. pottntJtU, rtgnaqllt ip[a, & unum fore f uptr om~tes imperi14.m, ac qils pleraque pactm habiuma, cuntr• fJMi.lll ante fiebat, &c. a-vid. £ujtb" de prtepar.l. r. c. Io. . D 3 Iy ' |
