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Show of 'W)tr~ Mil P"t act . , .i·., . ;, ot i maiined body , or other impurities , ~::' :: .•. ' fuch as are many in the He'braw llaw, te ·-lA ·c ,,. ~ · wit , to berkep"t from affemblies or fun6H. IJ.~b. de e~Uio ons' ·, are not prop~rly ·pu~Hhrnem~ ,' al· t Et Hicrodes though fot a certam fitnihtude , and abuilf. rrpilllm.~•P!tt~• fi'uely, they are caHed fo. Now , among La€tlamu d~- the things which nature it felf ditl:ates Daueri n eft de l'Jia b I c. \ d · 11 h" . c: • . 1~.1(411 to e awru an not unJUt~, t 1s 1s ene, exif/4D{A/1Mntur that he who hath done evtl jhould Juffe.r enore, qui em- evil.~ which the P.hilofophers call a moll: .furamjivl hM: anci'em and Rhadttmanthean Law. Per:. ::::J':e:bt~ tinent is that faying of Plutarch , Juftice tatu& malititt accompanieth God, to punijh them, that nomine infa- tranfyref:r the Law 7Jivine: whzch all we mant, put~n_tes men Zy future ufe againft all men as fe!- onp~ocretnetree m, eqlumi l ows. T la t o Ga1· d , Nce t·t h er Go d nor man nocentes afficit wtll fay , that an offender ought not be pupmna. Convc- nifht. And Hierax, by this as the nobleft n·t hue~ i!~ ' part , defined Juflice, an exacting t of lud Behfaru punijhment from offenders. What we have apud Proco· ~ 'd h 'lhm , l {' d pium Vandal; iat , t at· punt ent proper y 10 name , J. Primum Jle~ mu{t be renderd to fome offeq.fe,this is a1~ (lititt .. ~acumen~ \ct> ·noted by :Auguftin; eAll puni(hment, tum e''t P.:e~a taith he ifithe jujf is thepunifhment of ex•fla de mJu- ? • ' , . flu iflttrfe6lori,.ftn. Whtch IS to be underA:ood of thofe btu. Adde A-: punifhments too, that God inflitleth , gar h. J. r< ubi though in them fometimes ' by .reafon of td eA Augnuafrtz?nh:o . · hntnan ionorance as the fame Father La- r> ., • m culpfl, ubi f~eaketh f, the .fin zo [ecret, wheretht pu- '11971 tatet plentt.~ nifhment. 14' not.fec~et. <: . LXXI. who fhould punifh an Evil-doer. h '1 d -. "Augufl. Si REafon di6lates , t at an evt - oer non reddit fa- · may be pundhed, not who fhou!d pu- ciendo quod denifh him : but that nature fufficiently b~t,retitkt pa· fheweth it is mofl: convenient to be done tltndll qu~lll ' J". • d h · t debet. Phtlo : by him that is mpenor : yet ot lt no . Peccaredumfe-demonfl: rate this to be nec.dfary • except jiinati&, ad prefuperior be taken in that ienfe , that the naJ forendtUfe~ ev'11-doer be thouoht to have made him- fiinttta. felf thereby inferi~r to any. ot!1cr , and to . · have as it were degraded hunidf from the order of men into the number of beaits fubJ'e6l to man, as fome Divines have de- Ths. 1 • 1 • q&u. termined. 7Jemocntus: "' t .t · 64.art.1. .JJ] mt urc 1 ts l b. cajet. Sic ordaind, that the bctteY command th~ & Mo{es Maiworfe. And U"friftot le faith , the worfe monad Deut. are provided for the ufe of the better , as 33· well in nttturals as artificials. It follows 7• Pol. 14• hence, that at leaH a guilty perfon ought not t0 be punillit by . another equally 'guilty: to which purpo{e is t~at .fentence ofChriA:, Whofoever ofyou ts wtthout fin ]o. S. 7· ( fuch a fin) let him throw the firft ftone. . . Which he therefore fpake,becau!e in that · aoe the manners of the Jews were mo{l: c~rrupt , fo that they who would feem moil pure were in the mire of Adult:ry and [uch like crimes; as we may percctve Ro. z. 2t.. The fame that Chrifl: had faid, the Apofl:le faid alfo: Therefore thou art inexcufable , 0 man , who(oever thou art · that |
