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Show x. whether' ltnd how .far it u per· mitted by th~ £vangebca/ l Law. · ANd vvhat·fuall we fay now of the Evangeticall La~ : t.hat the. fame is permitted by it, whtch 1s perm1tted by the Law of Mofes; or that, as in other thinos it is more per feet than the Law of cJvt~fes , (o here ali'o ~t req~ireth of us more? I doubt not,but 1t reqmreth more. For, if Chrifl: commandeth ro lofe a .coat or cloak and P aut would have us !uffer damage ~·ather than go to b w , which is a contention 'without bloud: how much more would he , that even things of grea· ter moment be lofl:,rather than we fi1ould kill a man , the image of Gcd , and of the fame fldh and bloud with us? ~Vher· . fore if our things may be faved 'io that there fcem not to be any danger of rna· kino flauohter, well; otherwile, we ~u!l fuff~r Ioife,unlefs haply it be fuch a thu~g, upon which our life and of our famii~ depends' and which cannot be reco~er. in judoment ' haply becaufe the Thd u Unkno~n and there is fome hope co carl· ry the mat' ter without 1u1: lllg ht er. An d aa•s thouoh almofl all , as well Lawyers 0 d h h t a man rnaf $~lll'd. a.,t, 8. Divines, o now teac '. t a four Leff. dllb. n.u. be rightly flain by us , 1}1 defenfe 0 hew 14· oods even beyond thole bounds, w Sylv. in vtrho ~ l ' L f Mofcs and the 1-Jm~N Bellum, lo,n. 3t l1l t lC: · aw O ptr!nltj 193 permit;as,ifa thiefhaving taken the thing fly; yet do not we doubt, but that which we have fet down , was the judgment of the ancient Chriflians :nor did r!Auftin doubt i whofc words are thefe , How ar~ Lib. 1. de lib. t.h~y ftel\~om fin be.foreGo~,who, for thefe arb. th1ngs whi&h are contempttb!e, are pollu-ted with human blood? No wonder if in ' 1 • , this matter, as· in many other, DifcipJjne . became IQofer t with the time, and by! H.icronym'!J deorecs ther Interpretation of the Evan- In VJtaMaJch1: 0ge 1·1 ca 1 La w be gan to be accommo da te .d fPiao (cJfqZupaitm hEacbcTdte-to the manners of the Age. Of old, t~ chri(ltanos M4~ form of the primitive Inflitution wap giflratfls f•Ci~ · woi1t to be retained a mono the Cleroy·at t[t 1Jf4Jdtml!l- • r;, 0 ' · bus m ·or [ul length, to thefe alfo ceniure was remitted virtitef6us ~~ upon the fame ground. nor. Vide c. · , fufcepimu', , de homjcidio volum:uio, &. c. de his, dHlin8:, I. Par~. &. 2.. dt Homici.B, LeJJ. d. loco. . • . XI. whether the (ivi! L;w permitting one to kJIL another in hu own defenfe, give a right , or onlJ impunity. ' A ~ellion is he_re propos' d by lome , Whether the Law, at leaft the Civil , as having right of life and death J .in what .cafe it permit~eth a t~ief to, be killed by a private perfon, doth alfo exempt the perfon from all faul-t. l . conceive that is not to be granted: For firfl: , the Law hath not right of deat~ over all the Ci~i-· 0 zens |
