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Show Of W~~. APd·Pe4&~ or of him againH whofe interelt the offenfe was , or of any other indiHinaJy. To the firlt of thefe ends belongs the pu-t. nilhment called by Philofophers , femetime Jl!.9t71'~, fome time ao).cccm J fometime n· &INcm: Paulus the L awyer calls it punifh. m~nt for emendation , P laco to mak._e one wife, Plutarch a medrcine of the mind· having this effed: to make one better b; d . way of Phyfick, which works by Con- " Sm. e 1ra I. tt·a .· F b r ll n. . f. ~emadmo.. 11e~. or ecaute a a"uon , expecial-d# m qu~dam ly_ deltber~t~ and frequent, begets a ccrbo{ litia_ detma, tam procl1V1ty to the like , which after Nt co;ngamU6, growth is call"d a habit; therefore with ::~:~;n;:;, al{ fpeed vices are to .be deprived of their 7'011 q,t fra~4• al urement : and ~h1s. cannot be better ~ ,fed ut ex- done , than by embmenno their f weetnefs plicemU6~Iidj- withfornepain,.. followina. TheP!ato"'! 144=.fi.cz,gen- nifts in v1puleius: It is r:Orre than anv 11a vma pr ~~:va, .fh . h . J' ' dqtwe corporu pum. ment, ift e gutlt)'[cape unpunijhed: 1111imiq; corrigi- and m Tacitus we read , The corrftpted mta. ~nd ~orrupting minde, Jick...and inflam•d, Annal. 3• IS to bereftrainedand cooled with remedies 1M vehement , as the lufts wherewith it burnet h. LX X X I I I. Of punifhing a delinqumt for his own benefit. tPiautus Trin. . . . .Amicum cafti- pumfhment for thts end Is by nature gar~obmerit4tn • lftwfu1 for any one that is of good nox~am, !mmu· JUdoment and not obnoxious to the 1ft e(t fa6JnU6 f: b l . vtrum i~ ttt;te am~ or equa vtces , as appears by that Ntile, calt1gation which is by words t· but in firipes The fecond PArt. 31g lhipes and other punithments that con-tein fomewhat of coad:ion , the difference between perfons that may , or may not, Vide Augult.' is not made by nature ( nor· could it be Enchir. c, 7~~ made , only H:afon peculiarly commends ~ to parents the ufe of that right over their ..- Children by the. neernefs of affed:ion } but by Laws, wh1ch for the avoidina of contention, have refirained that com~on propinquity of mankind to the next Re• lations , as may be feen, both elf where, and in Juftinians Code (tit. de emenda. tione propt'nquorum.) Whither peneins alfo that ofXenophon to his Soldiers: If I have beaten any one for his good, I confefs I owe fuch a punifhment , as parents do to their Children , Mafters to their Scho-lars; And'!hyjicians too,for their patients recovery, ]ear and cut. La6l:antius lib. 6. Jubet Deus &c. God commands us al-w_ ays to have ~ur hand over our infe-rtours , to chafte[e them daily for theiroffences,. leftby our '!nprojitah!e love and too much mdulgence ,they be ill bred and nou-rijhed for vice. But this kind of punith- ' · men~ cannot ex ten~ unto death,except re-duEhvely , ai negatwns are reduc' d to the oppofite things. For as Chrilt faid, it had , been bettc::r for fame, that is, not fo bad,if Mar. 14. u; they had never been , fo c~ incurable na-tures it is better , that is , Jefs evil to die than to live, whe~ ~tis certain, th~y will become worfe by hvma Seneca fpeaks of 'D • fuch , when he faith ~nTo perijh ii fome- e mt. time |