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Show Of W.er anJ Pe4Ce ~t(e you and perfecute you. Some there be that holci, this love and beneficence towards enemies and perfecutm:s cannot confift with capital judgements or Wars. But they are eafily refuted,. if we do but confult w'1th that iaying of tbe Hebrew Law. It was commanded the Hebrews t.:> love their Ne1ghbour, Levit.Jf.J'f, that is, their: ~ellow-Hebrew .. : forio ''c· . , the word Neighbour is taken there, f•e lytuuts p. ar pro· Nevenhelefs were the Mag1· nn rates com· manded to put Murderers to death, and other capital offenders; neverthele[s ..Jvas the Tribe of BenJamin, for an abo· minable tranigreffion , profecuted iu a juil War by all the other Tribes; never· thelefs did David~ who fought the Lord's battails, rightly recover the Kingdom promifed him, from I sbojheth by A.rms. Be it fo then, that the f1gnificat1on of 'N_eighbour is brger now, and conreins cve1·y man ; f01· all are now received in· to con1mon grace, no people are by God devoted and given up to defiru• aion: yet will that be lawfull towards all, which was then lawfull towards the Iti·aelites, who were comm:mded co be lov"'d :ts well, as all men now. But, if you would have a greater degree of 11 Terrul. adv. love to be commanded in the Evange· M:.rc:ion.4. Heal Law, let this be granted allo, fo Swmd~ gr•· that this be agreed on too, that all are ~us bo mtJtu ep not * equally to be loved but a Father IU~tr AntOS :Ill • ' , od rrexiiiiDJ pri.. more than a fore mer. And fo t~e go ,,.s. Hicro- · of 4f ef an innocent perfon is ~o be prefer' d nym. ~dv. ~: before the good of a. noceht, the com- lag. dialo- ' mon good above the private, by the Law ~:m ~fl Pr~~ep· of te~la~ charity. Now, from the love diligam ~~;:,:t~ and ca'te Of the illDOCCnt, * both capi- tOS, & Ortln , tal judgements and pious Wars have P'0 pelfecr~tor_i· their originaL Wherefore, the precepts ::a~:~,fJ~1~ of Chrifi, concerning_ love and char!tY diliga~, ;UAP 4 to every one, ought io to be fulfill d, pro:ximos & unleis a greater and more juft and ne- coiJfa,gNiTJt~s;' ceffary point of charity will not fufter. 1 " 1 ~~~~ If~! , Th Jd r . . ll k rr um "..,- nece11•at o 1aymg IS~ we mown : .l o riumnu/ta di-: , pardon all is cruelty, tU much tU to par· (linll1o fit. ' don none*: Adde, that we are enjoyned ,.V1d.ProvJ to love our enemies after the example :•su,. • of God, who makes his Sun to fbine Cle~~t ; 4 ,;, upon the bad. Yet the fame God eX:e- omJtibNS ig7!iJf. . cuteth p'\.mHhment, even in this life, cere, crudllit~U upon fome bad ones, and ·hereafter will t(f, qua~ nulli: feverely puniih all.VVhereby is alfo an- CChryf. 1 ' !,d . r. d r · b or.3.12 .. ~c. 1were what1ocver IS wont to e alleeed de pxnis hum. ,here out of the precepts of ChrifHan le- agcns :1{!111 nity. For God is called gentle, mer- ex f~vjtia,{edJ ciful, and lono fuffedng : Yet do the e~ bom_tate t"· H ·1 S · 0 r f' h . r. .J lu1{ac111nthlo y cnptures 1et ort m mnury ~Ia~ mines. Augu.- ces the anger of the fame God agamfi frin: ~cut t{t the obilinate *, and his will to punifit alif!uan~a mithe unoodly: And the Maoiitrate is fe;uord~apu- . b o 7fJtns, 1!11 & cr•tltl,ta.s parcenr. Valentinianus, Theodofius ~ Arco.dius, in lrge ~c~t1a, CGd. Theod. de defcnfodb. Civit. '8Jmovetl1itur l~tronrJJa,qu~t {a11orl reis & ttu:xiliu facinorojis implrtintnJo.matura· Yl [eeltra Ja,i•nt. To~ilas apud Procop. Qot. z.. Peccare & ,rohibere pmn111 ptee1111tium in pari ptmo. joh.4. z.. E. xod,34 6. Num.14.18. R•m.:.,8, >t Vi4e ha<: de ~e Ctrillum lib.f,cont. Julian. ordained |
