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Show .t86 ,·. ,·. ~I • of Wttr ~tnd Pettee otherwi[e I cannot keep off that evil! from me. Charity aHo, by it felf, !eems not to bind us here , in favour of the of. fender. But the Evangelicall Law hath clearly made fuch a deed un\awfuH. For, Chri!.l: commands a blow to be received 1 rather than any hurt be done the ather· fary ; how much more forbids he him to be !lain for to a void a b\ow ? By which example we are admonifheq to beware t/Jv.U·P·3·(e~. of that faying of Covarruvias, Humane ~~de Bom,e~d. underil:anding , not ignorant of natural! 1·ight, allows not any thing to be permit· ted by natural! reaion, which very thing is not alio permitted by God, who 1s Na· ture it [elf. For, God who is the Author of Nature , to , that lw can all(, work freely above nat re , hath a right of pre· fcribing us Laws even of thofe things, which bv their own nature are free and indefinite: and much more, that a. thing may be due, which is by nature h~n:H, though not due. But it is Grange , leea~g the will of God appears fo manifefl:ly Ill the Gofpel,that there are found Divines, . I f,a~:~~~1;i~!· and thofe Cbriflian Divine~, who do ~ot rert,ul. c. 1 x. only think flaughter to be nghdy adtmt· riqor de jure ted) tba t a blow m3. y be a voided j but al· ~ill n. f· fo after a blow received, if he that gave · it fly; for3. reparationofhonour, as the~ fay. Which to me feemeth very contra· ryto R-eafonand Religion. For, Honopr is an opinion of excellency. But, h~ t~at beareth fuch an in jury , fhewes bun\elf excellently I The f<'ond P flrt. excclle~ltly patient :and therefore hath r.ncrcaJe o~ !wnour rather thap ditnj.qu-tton. N~r IS n rnarcriall , if tome men of a ~·orrupt judgmen~ tuduc;e this vcrtue wtth n_arr:cs made for diJgrace : for thole . pe.rverJe JUdgments neith~r change th} t~mg., nor. the eflirnation of it. Nc.tb>"t· dld the ant.ten_t ChrifHans onely fee this, ?utthe Phtloiopher~ too, who la id , lc ~~a token of a weak fpi¥it not to be abJ~ to. bear ccntumcly, ,as vvc have Dlcwed elicwhere. Hence a1Co it is apparent how unfounq. that is' which very maJlY, Au-l'~ , :hors * tay, Th~t Dcfenfc wich £laughter lt • IS b.wfull, to Wlt, by divine law (for I ~d.m!.u! clorhttend not about the right of nature . ) ;:_mJT~~·sd~J~~~. a t .o uflg" h one may fl Y W·l thout perill . b·f - vei'bo BeH}'wvn. '" cau!e t~ht forfooth is diDlonom•abl;, ef- p. :z.. n. 4· , ·p edc tadlly for a.. Gentlemall · But , 11 ere t.s c1 1!1 ~e ?~ ddhonour; onely a certain . ~alle opmwn of dilhonour to be d r. . led b J! h ' C1p1 .. . . y a,. t e Followers of venue and . Wtledome. Wherein, Ire joice that I have amono the l.a . r l ' Ofth 'Or ~ycts,"aro us Ul1.olint£U1 * lt lnaddit •d faid e f1 ameb ml md W·i t1 1 me. Wha t J have Alex.conf•. IJ9. lh o a ow and of flight I ddire o.uld be underfiood of other ;hinos b whlch tru.e honour and e .,1. . b .Y no 1 ffi XtnHnatwn 15 t e ened. And what if one fhould re-port that of us' VII hich beino believed a mona oood d t> - H -:,_o men woul touch our N ~ e alio may be klll'd r r ame. falO d , tay tome t . vety Y' an againfl: the Law ·f t Petr. N 11v1tr. turetoo Forth . 'even o naM t. 2.. c 3 " our Rep.utat· at lS no fit way to defend 376 • .•• · ' 1011 ' VIII. |
