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Show ofWt~r 11ntl PeAte thin~ imptety to embr11e with the hloud of innocent men. Thefe oar hands are expert to fight againft wick_td men and enemies, they k_now not how to cut in pie· ces pious men and thofe of our own Coun· try. J!Pe ha11e not forgotten that we t~~ 11p .Arms for ourCountrJmen, not againft them. We have alwaies fought for ju· ftice,forpiety, for the fafety of the inno· cent: thife hAve heen hitherto the price of our perils. We have fought for Faith; which, how Jhail we k!ep with yon (they fpeak totheEmperour) if we freferve it not with our God? Bajil, o the more antient Chriftians, thus, The Jlaugh· ters made in War, our .Anceftors accomz• ted not f~r Jlaughters, having thttn excll{ ed who draw the [word on ~eh~tij of piety and vertue. XXXIV. That all private War u not uniltwful,by natural Law. THat fome private War may be law• fully waged, as to the Law of Na· ture, appears fufficiently by what hath been faid above, when we lhewed, it is not repugnant to the Law of Nature to repel force by force, and defend ones " felf from injury. But haply fome may think it now unlawful, fince the confli· tution of publick Courts of J uftice ; for although thefe Courts be not from nature, but from humane OrdiJ}ance' yet The Fj,ft PArt; 67 y~t feeing it is much more honell: and becomming, and more conductble to ~ans quiecnefs, that the ma'tter lhould be t'rycd before an indifferent Judae · than that the parties themfelves in~e~ tdfcd, who too often favour themfelves o~cnnu~h' fuould execute what they t~mk r1ght, _by force ; equity and na.:. tural reaiondtelate tf> us, that it is our ~uty to obferve io laudable an Infiitu• tlon. Paulses the lawyer faith: It u not _to he granted to the partie-s to do that w~tch mayh~done puh!ickJJ hy the Ma-L.1JnuadtR.t giftrate, left tt be an occajion of makjng a ~afs.l. 4.V11r. g~eAter tumHlt. And the King Theodo- ltpifl • .,. rtCUI *: Henceit is, that the reverence 1 ~he Laws w M found out, that nothing 7 Eu~dtlll vidt mtgh~ be done bJ force, nothtng [,J oneJ ~f1Edtflo. c.xo. OWtJ tmpulfe. For wh4t aijfirence he- Co 1~4. twnn the clamneji of Peace and the con .. fuf!on cf War, if cont.roverjies [,e deter- . • · mmed 61 fwce. The Laws call it force IU often AI anJ man requireth that wh. h L~ EX {lilt. D: he think.! due unto him not b tcr. tJIIIdmtt/14. o( L C ' 'J courJe li aw. . errainl X, it mull be cpnfef· - . ed, .the. licence permitted before the colln lh·t utdto tl ofCourcs ofJuaJ·ce . h ~ n , IS muc r~ rame tmc~~ And yrt fince, it tome-t! mes ta~eth place, namely, where pub} tckb.J ~lltce IS ~·aming i for the Law o~fl iddmga man to feel{ his 0wn oth •. Wl de. than by caur(e oflaw ouoht comelmo toufly t b d ' tJ ·claule h o e un er~ood with this ' w ere La wFand Judgcmcm rna y ~ be |
