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Show ofW~r 11nl PeAce enemies • ~or are there wanting a~ mona the old Doe\ors, vvho although they n diiapproved not publi'k Wars, were neve~thelels of opinion that pri~ vate defcnte ~as fQrbidden. We have above fet down fome places of Ambro[e for VVar; and mare of AujNn , and more clear, known to all. Yet hath 'the .(.ib.tQ.inLuf. fame Amhrgfe faid: And perhaps ther~ · fore the Lord. [aid to Peter, Jhewmg' · two Swords, It u enough, mtimating 1t was l~wful ·until th~ Gofpel came, which injlruCteth 111 i'n the truth~ /.U the Law did in Justice. The fame Father elfe· ,/li where: eA {hriftian if he fall upon an PtDp·'·J.• ~· armed ,thief, cannot· ftrik..! him agai11 that ftrikJth ; left while he defends hi& fafety, he offe,d againft piety. And Lib.t.de r;b. Augustin ~ath faid : I do not indee~ 4,&. c. f. · reprehend the Law which permitt-eth fuch ~Pif: t f4 . .rd (thieves and other v10lent affaulters) Pu l"olum. t~ he., fl~in, hilt how t4 defend tho{e that ca;.~J· (})< 11· flay them I do not find. And elfewhere; * .Addet~d. .Allrtulfntnfts eanonem cit At. 4 Gratiano e. Nlt. caM{. 13• ~· z. As to kj!ling of men, left one he killed, I do not ltf<! that courfe, unle{1 perl:ap1 ont !Je a Soulditr, or /Jound by public~ Office, that he doth not thu for himfelf hut others , having received /awfHl power. And that Baftl was of the fame mind, appears fufliciently o~t of his fc· ~ond EpHUe ~o Amphi/or~iH~ *. . xxxv. XXXV. The lawfulnefs of pr1'vate defenfe confirmed. BUt the oppofite opinion, as it is more common, fo it feemeth unto us more true, that an obligation is not laid upon us to be fo patient. For we are commanded in the Gofpel to love our neighbour as our felves, not. above our felves : yea where equal evil is immi~ nent, we are not forbidden to provide fer our Jelves *rather than for others, • ca§iotlwJUtlt as we lhewed above · by the authority .Amic. ~anc of Paul explainin" that rule of benefil. nultusatrqtlo cencc. Some pe~haps uree aoainll . us plrttctpto,t~tl h "' o a tqua r• 1ont t us: Although I may prefer my own ttnttur,{alutt• good before my neighbour"s, yet this 111i111tt prsximi hath not place in unequal goods : whcr- ltrditiD'rttafore my temporal life js rather to be de .. "'11 {11~; .llllt. ferted than the invader permitted to f~P't~u 'JIM ~~f ll · ocr• r01em~ ea· . a mto eternal damnation. But thus ,, {ptm ptf(lt• lt may be anfwered: He that js· inva- tll.e[4Mis,prtJ· ~ed hath oftentin~es himfdf alio need of pri! c~rporu inu~ e t~ repent' or hath fonie reafon to tmu~ proeur~~rt. thmkio; and that theaifailant too may poffibly ~nd fome fpace for repentance ~efore hts death. Befides; in a moral Judgement, that peri-l teemeth not fit t~ be regarded, into which a man cafts h~mfe1f, ~nd from. which he may free · hlmfelf, tf he wtll. Certa_inly, feme of t~e ~~ofiles, even to the lall ti'm~s, Chn(l mmfelf feeing and knowing it, F 4 kern |
