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Show of ·WAr And PeA&l t learned tD reftft: I can grietle, I ca,. ':eep I can ftgh: agAinft ttrmes and fol~ a.J1· er '"V"'n Goths m111 armsaremJ tears, S, " " ' I . , /1. Fbr fuch are the muniment.r of Pr!ep.r. In any other fort, mit her ought I, mr can I rt[i/f. After: It wM reqt~ir_;d ofmt,th~t 1 fhouldreftrain the peo~le : I anJ1urd, tt was in me , not to rarfe then: ; in Gods hand to quiet them. The iame eAm· /Jr,fe 'would not ufe the forces ~f Maxi· mus aoainH the Emperour , bemg both an .At;,rian and a perfecutour of the Church. So vvas Julian the ~pofiat, wh~n he plotted the Churches rume , rc· . . preifed by the tears of Chr.ifi_ians, as N~t· Tbtodoret.IJ~{l. :z:..ian:z:..en faith addinct, Thu was the on· I!.c~lef. lib. f. ly remedy a~,aiHft a per{ecutor. And yet ~"!;e~~. in]u· almoft all his Army vvas made \JP of li•n· ChriLtians. Adde hereunto, that , as the fame Naz.,ian:z:..en obferves , tha~ p~rf~cu· tion of J'llltttn , was not onely IDJUrtous to the Chrifiians ' but had brought the Commonwealth alfo into extreme d~n· ger. We will clofe up this with .a faymg of Au?:~tj/in ' where he explatnes. the words ~f P~tul to the Romans: It~~· '"1•1-4~ ceJTary for this /tfe we Jhould he f~tb)e" i n•t reftfting ,if they (the Governors) fhal plell{e tD taf<! ~tny thing from m. LXVII. LXVII. lt is n1t /awfuti{Dt" infqjour . c.JUagiflratts to makf war upon the 1-lighejf. Our age hath brought forth men , learned indeed , but too oblervant of times and places, who perf waded them- w felves firlt (for fo I believe) and then others, that the things above fpcken have place among private perfons , not alfo·a- . mong inferiour Maoi(hates t: who (as tP. ~artyrnJ · tl · r.n ]NdiCUNJ J tnefe men thinke) have a l·ight to relln p11r~WJ ad 1 .3 the injuries of the Soveraign : yea they gap. ad X.r;m. • fin, unlefs they do refill. This is not to .lu11. Brt~tHs. be admitted. For as in Logick the inter- Da~~tU& lib:. 6. ·m-e- d.1.a. te 'Jjp ecr.e s,1' f you re 1.p e~.nl. t he gmus, j>Ol1t. & alu • is fpecies;if the fpecies below it, is genus: •.Genu, fpc:fo theft Magiltrates ,in regard of their in .. c•alc, Sen.ep1[l. feriours are publique,pd:fons,but in rela- sa. tion to their fupcri,ours are printe. FoP all ficulty of governino, which is in Ma-gifl: rates, is fo fu,bjetleq to the highcfi Power, that Vfhatfoever.they do againll the will of the foveraign , is dellitutc cf that faculty, and therefore to be accoun-ted for~ p:ivate aB:. For, that faying of the Ph1loiophers hath place he1e alfo, * ,. Aoi!rroes ). There can benD order withoutrelatio~t un- Met;~ ph. tom. to (omewhat which is firft. Who think 6. Ordinffll no~ otherwiie , io tne they feem to introduce «ari ntji cHm. . fuch a !late of things , as the Ancients r:;~zon; ad ~~.t1~ feign t& have been in heaven before the q ' pr mtzm. the Rife of Ma jefiy , when they fay the I. 2. minor |