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Show tis e'fident by their Religiou!J obfervation of the Sabbath, no other ufe of arms beino permitted, but only for felf-defenfe. Anl'thefe yet made a league with the Laetdemoniam and Romans,by the affent of the Priefls and people : xea and pub. lickly offerd Sac1·ifice for their fafety. In. Ranees to the contrary have peculiar taufes. For if. befide thofe that were ex· preffed in the Law , God had fignified by his Prophets , any Kings or Nations to be odious to him, and condemned co an\ overthrow ; to undertake the dcfenfe of them, or to joyn forces with them, was , without doubt, impiety. Hither pemins th~t of the Prophet to Jchofaphat tot:ch- ~ P1r~lip.t1,!.• ino the King of lft'ad: Jhottldeft tbott t Gr:tt!anus help the ungodly, and love them that hau Valenups•truo t the Lord' there~ore u wrath ttpon thu eontra cy- · J' · h · h thu opem pe- from before the Lord. For c.)'vtrc ata t e renti fcr~fit, Prophet had already forcto1d an unhap· F_tU.nonene r~ py i£fue of the War. And thatofanocher ~,tclea llrmtt Prophet to Ama:z:.,iah 0 King' let not JUifgtTUUM tl ' · h h (, h ui Dei fot &11• the A1·my of I{ rat! go wtt t. et: ~or t ~ Ju. ZorttU$. Lord iJ not with lfrae!, to wtt , Wtth any '- Paralip. "f· of the (hi!dren of Ephraim. Now, that 1· this comes not from the nature of the ' League, but from fome pecul~ar quality of the perfon,is evinc' d even he nee; becaufe lthofaphat was heavily rebuked , a curfe . a.lfo being tdded , for this , that for co~· ~ Farllip. u. merce fake he had joyned himfdf vmh '3 7• "ha%..iah Kino of Jfrael, and had en· ..n z:, 1 trei into fuch a foci' ety , as D avt· J an d • SolomltJ rlu [t~~nd • ·'2Jl &lumfJYJ had made with Hiram: whom "c have faid to have been, for that rea-fen, pa.rtly not reprehended, partly com· mended. For , what is added, that .Aha- , Par"t• il' • _J_ d'd . k dl " lp. I•• x.tMJ 1 w1c e y, ought .to be referred ,., 1· to his whole life: for which God was of- Ef. 1.1. fended with him, and with all his enter-prizes, as. this hifiory is.explained, in the book enutled C!e.mtnt s Conilirutions. L'b 1 1 Moreover , this is to be noted that their 1 ' .cap.r • caufe, who being fprung from)acob had forfaken God well known unto them wa~ worfe than the caufe of fl:rangers. Fo; agamfl thofe Revolters the refl of their Countrymen were armed * by a Law ex. Deur. 13. IJ. tanr. Sometimes alfo Leaoues are blamed" Addc excmfor fame vice of the mind ~hence they did plum Jofuc proceed : fo was .Afa reprehended by the cap. u. ~rophet , for betaking himfelf tu the fo· oety of the Syrian, upon difl:ruft of God • which he had lhewed in fendino to th; · Syrian things confecrated. But the fame . King was reproved too, becaufe he had ::~~lJp. pl~c'dhis hope, not in God, but in Phy· A~h£oi: ad f~Jans. Wherefore, it doth not, from this 1\om~n. c. 3· hlflory , more follow that it is evil by . t Ana. 1m perf. fe.lf or oenerally to conti·aJ:l.. r . ' . lh :ad Mmh. c. fu ' tJ ' ~ lOClety Wlt 1, ch as the Syria11s were, than to con- • · fult with Phyfidans. For , many thinos notunlawfull are vitiated by the mind ~s D~tvid's mufler, and E%..ech;a's lhewi~o of ·~is treafu:e~ So elfwhere ' confidenc~" Stm. a,.; la put ;,n Egypt IS reprehended, when it was s lteg.ao. 1 J·· W1ul nevenhelefs for So/om1n to con- Efa. JI.I. .a. I .Rr,. 3· 1. tra\,;1 |