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Show 6 Of W~tr and Peace · 3... 0 d and .Macrobim upon Scipio·s fE.t Philofo· doreramm .' Brutus was at fi rf l: of t h'I S J·U dg - phorum non t and condemned t the fa61: of ea. pau~i extra men h'. h afterward he imitated : For he Stoicos, Sene- to, W lC . l · JJ ca E pl·1l1l.o 1a t h oug ht ,•. t neither ptous nor man.y to y. tew. 70 . Invenies to fortune , and fly away from. tmmtnent ltia!flp~oftffos • adve·rjities , which are couragtou~y to he ft~ptentwn;f/~1 • d ·one And Meuafthenes noted the m afferendam un erg • b d d b h ~~t.e {utt ne~ faa: of Calanus to be reprehen e. y t . e gent_, & ~t{tU Indian wife-men , vvhofe doB:nn~s did j'r.~d~etnt 1p(tem not fuite with fuch an end of men tmpamt_ eremptorem . t of life. The Perfians *, it feems, {IIJ Jietl. Expe- tlen . . . h G K a a~11dum e!Je were of th.e ia_me opm~on ,.: w .,0 e 10d cxitt~m quem 'Dartus faith m the Htf.l:o.um , I ha na&t~ra~emvit. rather dy 6y anothers crime, than by m:J PGr ocohp.i US utn own. UpOil this around the Hebrews faid o ' [! 4-~o;~~~ v_io~ to dy was to be* difmtft bas wtfom:J.te~~ tit! exit~ res not only Lu. 20. 29. ut a inutilis & pte1ra Greek vedion, Gen. 2). 2. & Nu~b, infipie12tu impe- . fi· 1 A phrafe us· d by the qrcczans JA. • u · 20 m n • r tm,.,Y ,,.a.zn • Themifl.ius 'de anima' They J"'J' A mortem fewt.f . too. J' . d r. ft . d death they audrtcia corJft[lo man e-hat dyes ts 1Jmt 'an h' cum car~at,p:u· cal a departure or di[mijfion .I~1Plutarc s deDtibtu jud1~ [ l tion the word is ufed 111 the fame &atur immt~it.o ~onr o aU · t ·t God him[elf diJmiJs Uf, Yet fibi fort~trldmu 1eme : rJ 1 · · the Law nomen u{itrpare. {ometof the Hebrews ,concermng [I Trtm vero & il· of not Killing himfelf , except one_ ca. e, ltt~ cogitandttm, ~san honorable exit, if one fee he IS hke nt m Deum ft~ tu ingl'ati. . . . s uam !ndis &. Pedis,<: Jobo ,. Idem Ar:~btbus VJfunl non mmu q V . ~r Hebrxorum fuper difcasc.3.2-1. * C 1 ,. · ).~~.es t anaue h Ult· : f· a.m · Jofe ho ubidetnoncP a· hac qu<Eftione fentenuas cogno~~as e~ [ud;i ad Petronium, r.aclis & de deliberacione Hero ts agtt~r. . m morte{pOIJtt{ltlll- P" hilone recitante: !J!-1· r. b' · ter nos J an!,llene , · J ce lmt/4 m ·d s cutpet in duolll-ta • tum mortttils iftll vnperenmr. ?{!Del# qMJ em ~ tmm, . ' The fo;4nd p4rt. 367 ~ IIJitOI, ~t .¢' lmpeworem rever~amNr, & facrat~f!,Ltges cu(lodiawl#." Id autl!m 1t'1 demNm efficm dab1tur, {i abeamll:f h111c conttmta 71ita ,; .. nimt vitati. - to live to the reproch ofGod himfelf.For, becaufe they hold, not we our felves but God hath power over our life ( as Jofephus rightly inllru6ted his (oldiers:) they think , a prefumtion of the will of God is that alone, which may perfect the reiolution of anticipating death. And co this they refer Samfon·s example , vvho faw true Religion expofed to contempt in the fport made with him; and Saul's , who fell upon his fword,that he might not be mocked by God· s and his enemies, For they fuppore he repented, after Samuel's 1 Sam. 31.- 4 ; ~hofl: foretold him of his death; which , thouph he knew would come co pafs , if he dtd fight, he neverthelefs declined not the ba.ttail for his Country and the Law of God , and thence got eternal honour , even_ by David•s Elogy: who alfo gave . · to them that honorably buried Sau/"s bo-dy, a tetlimony of their wel ·doinu. There ~Mace. 14~ is a third example of Ra:z:-es a J~ru[alem 31• Senator in the hifl:ory of the Mac· cabees. Moreover, in the ChrilHan hi-flory , we read like examples, of them Vide Eufeb.' that dyed by their own hands , lefl: by the force of torments they lhould be compeld to for[ we~r the Chrillian Re- Hhgion ;, ahnd of Virgins , who that c ey mtg t not lofe their virginity • X % t cafi |