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Show '~4cS of mifes , no lefs than valour in wars af\d battalls : and in the Heroical times the Scepter lift_ed up wept for the Oath of Kinon s , as e,ArzfJ1~- ot/e hath noted, •3· Po-lit. I ,llf• XLV I I. 0 F L £A q U E S. ThtJ ar' lawfullwith aliens from true 7\sbg~on , by the Law of N~ure. - LEaQUes :ue Covenants or Agreeme11ts made by cornm1nd of the hi"hcH: powers : wherein the parttcs arc b0und over to the divine wr:lth , in ca!e they break their faith. It 1s 3. famous queflion,Whe_ther they may be enterd inr? .with ch_ole that are aliens from true Rebg10n: vvhtch in the Law of Nature hath no doubt or difficulty ;for that Law is fo com?n to all men th;lt it admitteth not any dJfference of Re\ioion. But the oueftion 1s about the ,. AntoninrM , Cafff. Tolet~ MtJlin~ , Val· ae[i~~& , Malde-rm. Tl1o. :.'-·.qu. to. ~rt. 1 O· Oldr. con[. 71. Dt .. tian. 3. co11[. 7.0. Law Divine :out of which it is dilculfed, not by* Divines only,but by fomeLaw· yers too, and amongtl them by Otbadm and DecianU!. XL vII I. Th~y are not univerfally ' forbidden by the Hebrew Law. F·rrtt let us confltler of the old Divine Law and after of the new. It v.as Jawful,before the Law .of Mafn,t~ '.011 " tratt a League with aliens from Rell~wfo; The feconJ s47 for atl offenlive and harmJe{s behaviour. We have an example in the League ?f ]a- Gcri. JI· H: •ob with Lahan : to fay nothing now of .Abimekch , feeing it is not certain he was an Idolater .. Nor did the Law gi-ven by Mofes make any change. The Egypti11ns may be an example: who were then (no doubt) Idolaters ; yet are the Dc"t· a3, 1• Hebrews forbidden co be averte from them. The feven Nations are to be ex-cepted , condernnd by divine femence , whereof the ![rae/ires were delegated to be· the executioners. For thefe perlillina in their Idolatry, and refufing co fubmir~ might not be (pared ; to whom, by divine D decree , were added the Ama!ekjte.r. cuc.7. 1 • Lea~e~ of comn1erc.l!. alfo , and !itch like Deuc. 2. : 1 percemmg to the uttltty of both or of ei- r 7• / th.er party , are by the Law permitted 'W1th the prophane: for nothina is found to hinder them. And we hav~ the examples of Leagues which David and Solo• rnon made with flir~m Kino of Tyrians : and it is obfervable , that ~ the facred hi~ory the league made by Solomon ii fa1d to be mad~ according to the wifedom , I" which God had given him. Indeed, the Law of Mofes fpecially commands, to d1 1 . fDod unfD their CoJHJtrymen. Moreover DCVlt. 1 '· 1 · b uJ . d' , , cut • .2.~. t. t ~ pee 1ar 1et and courfe of life , pre- ,;,..,.~, -n, ~~~- fcn~e~ to the Jews, did fcarce a£hnit any .;.,. _ fam1har ~onverfation with other people. . !et doth 1t not follow hence, either that lt was not la wfull to do eo ood to forciners , |