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Show t;o ""N.111 Cflf'it i~ropbetam p~,. irHxtra JerJI( elem. I•ke 13 H· Jer.,38.J. · :1oftpl1. An~ iq •j. ~ 4·17. of W4r ami Pu.ce God1 ,and judgements are nlle? ~he j~dgetnfnts of Ciod, 1.nd J udgcs are latd to JUdge not in the place of man but of God. Yea. the matters of God are p1~1nly difl~nguifhc from the matters of the King: ,Nh~rc, by the 1113,tters of God, the mofi ]earned of the Hebre_ws bid us undetA:and judgtmcnts to be. excrcifed according to Gods Law. The King of the Jews, I deny not, cxercifed by himfelf certain c:tpitt~l judgements (in which particular M.'ltmonides prefers him before the King of Ift·ae/) which alio is evinc~ by exa~pies not a Few, both in the facred Scnp· ture and in the vyritings of the Hebrews:) Yet certain kind~ of eaufes feem not permitted to the Kings. co~ni~ance, viz. oftbc Tribe, of the h1gh PneH, of the *Prophet. And hereof there is an argu· mcnc in t~e hiHory of the Prophet Jm· my, whom when the ~rinces required unto death, the King anlwere~ :Behold, he is in yortr power, for th_e ~Gng _can. da nothinr; rrf}·ainfl rost :to Wlt, m tl115 kmd of mattel<;. Ye~, and the: pcrton that for any ocher caufe. was impeached. before the Sy11edry, could not by the K11~g be exempted from their judgement. 1 here· fore Hire-anus, when by t1owcr h~ could not hinder their j~.:dgcmcm concernlllg~~ rod,cl~Jded the fame by Art. In Macedontd, they that deicen~rd f~~m Ca!antu, as Ct;. ldfhvncJ in Arrut'I'J Jatth, b.tre rule;.t that people not I? .force ~ut by Law. ;a M:~ct.donians,(anhCurttH-s ,are acc~Jfom . " 'T'hejrft pArt. '121 t, th~ Reg~tl govern'ment vet are in a gre~t-ter jhf{dow ~f /tberty thAn other nations: For even the judgment of life and death was not in the Kinss hand. Of CapitAl matters , faith the iame Curtius, by the Li~. 1. old cuftome of the Macedonians, the Ar-m! diJ enquh·e ,in. time of Peace the (om_ mons; the power of the Kings prevat!cd ntJ f14rther.thaN their auth~rity ~ould move. There is in another:place of the fame Au-thor another toke:n of this mixture : The M~ccdrmtam decreed according to the cu- Lib. 8• ftome of their nation ,that. the Kingfhould tu~ni&suChRt. . notj~flnt on foot, without the attendance cPcDIIdyltUtttlia of/Jes e!efl Princes tl'r courtiers. Taci-ttitt!Jeret,na tus relatu of the Gothon~s : TheJ. are Pa,,onum & '110w in 'reater VA./falaue under their ~nglorum,ll. :.. K . h o .nrragonum, .f. mgs,t anot erGcrma.ns: norar~they&Nav1rr~eo- · .. Jet d11priv· d of all Iibert!. For he had afore dem limo, ubi. . _defcrib•d the principaJicy by the authori- ait,~ecmagi~r1 .. ty of perf wading , not by the power of tfl4 4 Rege ~~c.J~Co mman d'm g.: an d a f ter h e expreIuf'.e t h a timosp,1 1njeitea p nri~fip vao1-a full Royalty m thefe words : One com-ltnti~, nee mande~h, rv~thout 1111 exceptions, nat by A qu~cqu~mpopt~-o prec4''tous rtght of gove,·ning. EuHathius /o lmp~atum upon the fixe of" the Od'¥1T'es wnere the ~ntra.ml~~ir: C 1 JJ • ' • • •\tgts a zos fHt ?mmol!~e~lth of the Phd.llces JS dei- plena ''till jJJre, cnbed, l.atth lt had a m_ixture of'Pr;wcr, alfoJ{ttb legibur, ~(the Krng, and ofthe·St·ates t. Some-trw~ ]uur:s thing like it I obferve in the times oB the Lev• C!trfidomdes . · · • nt~tavu 11 u·. .J • , • • • • I Sam. 8. 4• "'•'r~ q¥ ,~, T4proba¥t.f?nf11t Pl(IINifib. i 1 c. 11t-, Eligi re~em a p~pulo fen.efr~ dememio1q; li.beros non habentem, &'fi poftea g1 gnat,abd~cl\r', oe fiat h~red'tariu~ rcgnu,rn J efrorcs ei ~ Pf>pulo XU, d~ri, nee mJ.i pltll~M!ll featentia q11enquam •:apitc: dananari. |
