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Show ~,, Antl--PeAre \ r d m, ake war up. on othet·s,cach CODI~ eratc:S . b r . il ground if atds can e tent to ubpoothn vJiUz -. men or m' oney, t he .y ar e to b.e r ' . t is done about perfonatl credt· 1Cnt, as 1 tors : but , if his ,p relr enc~' w ho ha th pro • mifed 'be requir' d ; fec:mg he c~nnot_be prelCr :ll t unrl' th both , reafon de. term. mLees ·htm refer that fide' wherewtth hls ague "Vide de J:tu- ti.os. tPn ore * antl.e nt : wuLt·c h .t he: .Acarnifm\ 1 dislib.4.C:·3•· tell the SpartanJ in .Rol]btUJ: and to the Libro I· fame effeel: is the anfwer of ~he Roman Conful to the CampttnianJ , It ts meet,;t relations fhoulel fo {u- order4 , that no el ~r t ,4t»Hif IJU%;.. fi . dfhip and focietl be 'vtolated t. Yct IS liA [trmi~·'o"~ t~(sn exception to be added : unlels the t.ra.v;,pe$1 '/lDJJ ,: onaer leaoue have ., beyond the pro· ~rA ~lo&OJ, Y ·ro fome~hino chat conteins in it' as dt~tJ:~to· • mue, o fd .. *that mz~ A~~ni~ it were, a tranfla~io~. o. omtnton. ' . ~aapU~J\~ ~ {omethinoof iubje6hon. For f~ allob, ni2num io l.c:-:. . . ' d .t . l:':lt we fay the fonner ts to e r--:;- • \ ~ l.ll ven ' ""' ' n d c.au~~Ol.C~--. c 'd except the later hath tran a.te a te~l'us.. . · pre,<!fr ., :ft · Livy * held IJ,(iJtjl.j,.':JIJ'k. dominion. So the 1\{epe m.s m . hat &tllM"'-.1•~1~ ... the faith of dedition more facred tEanh~ ~ Jl'idi Jt•~w. .. of fociety .Sctmtt. dithoguHh of the~ t tn~s ,um ~· 7· .: ' . r bt'lly but what I have fatd, a_s ~t t Etbtio 1beD- more u 1 ' I . fo 1 fuppo!e tt "•iii '· 138. is more· f-l.mple and p am, ~Lib. G. is more true. L Ill. Of the dijfolutiot; of a League. . . • d he Leaoue is Dte.Cenf.1o1· THe time being~xrr '. rl ren:w'd, not to be coocetv d tacdt y d 't'no ounlefs by fuch acts, which o a mt cher .. ther interpretation ; Fvr a n~w obligation is not ea.tily prefumed. If one Dt&. Clflf.JIOr part hath violated the leagae , the other may depart from it. For che1everal heads of the League ba ve every one the force of a condirion. For example may be that in Lib.z. ThuCJdides :They bear the J,ftf.me of brea .. /(!ng the League, 1fOt, w~o being deferttd bttak.Jthemfehesto others; hut they, who pe~(1rm not rtallJ that ajflftanct which they h11d promi[td upon on.th. Elf where in the fame Hifiorian : If etther part tranf-grefJ their Article.s ntver [o little, the .A~ greement'1 brolz.en. But this is thus true, except it were orherwiie conditi9n'd; which js w<mt fometimes co be , chat for every oftenfe it may not be Iawfull to de• pare from the League. L IV. Of Intt:rpretatio~. IF we look upon hitn alone, who ·hath promHtd, he is bound of his own ac ... cord to perform that to which he meant to bind himfelf. In a promife muft be l'IZjit/~quid c,njidered, what you thought , not what fen[erzs no~ ~,,(aid, as Cicero hath it. But, becaufe l:.~;~:.i::mternal acts are not vili9Ie by them- otr. I· fdvcs, and fomewhat certain mult be de .. re~ined , lefl: there be no obligation at all, tf every one might free himlelf by af-fixing on his own words what fenfe he pleafe; by the dielace of natural reafon, he to whom any thing is promifd , hath S 2. a· |
