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Show 23£ of War and Peace t Ambr?~us ad there is ~it hall asked of him a revenoe . ValentmJa - f fid' {j 1. t d h h k z:, JlU~ lmp ~uid o p~~ 10~ ne s : an e t at no':"s tft Jtlrarc, ~Jiji all tmngs 1s a revenger , becaufe a Wit· t)usqutm rt{ta .. ncs. Plutarch"~': Every oath cndsm im~ fidei ~tt~ pr.e- prec.1tion , if one Jhall be per jurd. Hither Jp,uotltm.t~ .d•vma';;; pertein the old forrps of lea gus , wherein n J:zrJ, canJ•' . a r r --: teri? Vide for-lt was the cunom to Ule 1acnfices, asap-mulam infig- pears , qen. I 5. 9, &c. As that RomAn\ nem Cha~ani form in :J.ivy t: Thou 0 Jupiter [o [mtte \ A.vadroMrum him, as I do thu Hogg.' And e1fwhere · Cdlrpuum · execnearnp-- p raying t he q. o d .s , t he y· would Jr o ~ay hi m ', ris 'Legatio- as he had flam the Lamb. And 111 TolJ· num. bim and Feftm :~(wittingly I deuive , ,. ~t.-ff.zto- fo let Diefpiter ca(l m~ arva:y , as I caft a· tm aT11u. ]upitcrit4 way t hr'. s ftonc. · ill um ftrito, r~t ·ego bunc porcu. XXXV. In oaths al[o other thin[S are Liv.lib. I· named, with re[peil to God. ~jb. 2.1· Deos precatus M ita fe m•Cla· O_ reover, 1· t 1· s an ~ntt· ent cun11o m to rent, ut itfe iwear by other thtng~ named,~ by tzgnum maClaf- other perfons· either becaule theywtlhed (et.Si[citn~ fa{- tho[e to be h~rtfull to them , as the Sun, lD it~.~e ~~~t~ tha earth, the hea ven1 the Prince; or be· !~el~;~l;pf· caufe they defired to be punifh~ .in the dun. fame as in their head, in their children, 1n th~ir 'country , · in their. Prince. ~or ~ De fpecial. was thi~ the cufiom of proph:me nattons ~t~itus. onel y, but of ~he Jews , as Philo • !hew· eth. For he: faith, men that are ab0ut to fwear ouoht notf~r every matter prefem· ]y to h'~ tveo reco· urfe to the mak_tr an.J ,I~ a· ther of all t hin.g s ,but to f wear by th:Jr rr rents by "be·a vcn , earth , the umver e. · ' · Where· 'the fecond P 233 Wherewith agrees, what the Interpreters of Homer note ·, that thofe old Greek£ were not wont haftily to fwearby the Gods, · put by ather * things pre[ent, as, by thr'.; "De Socrate Sceprer: and that the lame was con!li tu- Apollonius ted by the mofl righte us· Kina Rhada- ~pud Philo-h . d .. d b h z:, uracum 6. mant .us, JS e 11vc~ ~ Porp )'1J3nd th J~rabat perijltt, Scholtaft upc 1 A n.fhpt1a:tes. So we read, no" ut per Deos, that Jofeph fwore by the life of Pht4r~-:oh ,/edne ptr Deos ·according to the manner of the ~gy .Jti- Juraret. ans ' noted there by ,11 benefdrtu ; Et:fha' Gen. 42.. I 5· by the life of Elija . And truly Chrifl, in ~ ~~~~ ~. th~ 5. of Matthew , doth not, as fome 2-.Reg. 4. 3Q: thmk , pronounce thefe oaths lefs law- Cam.;.. 1· ' full , than the other made· by the exprefs . name of God; but, whereas the Hebrews lefs regarded thefe, out of an opinion like ~o his who faid, He did not think__ the fcepter to be God, lie lhews that thefe al-fo are truly oaths, For Ulpian too hath L ~. • p D ~ 11 r. 'd r_r h r.. .-<J.tJ tr .u4 'fery we 1a1 ; ne t at Jwears by hu jure;itr. lt.a & life,feems to [wear by qod; for he [wears G;ar.cau[a. u, :Wtth refpeil of the DritJ, So faith ChrHl, qu,eft. 1 • 'He that Jweareth by the Temple,fweareth Matth. 1.3.2.~. by him that dwelleth therein: and, he that fwet~reth by heaven, fweareth by him that jitteth thereon. But the Hebrew Mafiers of thole times were of opinion , that men were not bound by the oaths made by ,/' Cre~tures, ex~ept a penalty being added, as, 1f the thmg of which ·the oath was ~ade, were confecrated to God. For, this IS the oat~ Korban,or of the ~~ft, whereof, ~ot on~y m the faid pla~e of M~etthew , · but |
