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Show )~·Q ojWdrt~ndPet~ce ,. Jambl. §!.g.tJ· time for the gQod ~f t~ofe t~at pe'rifh. *," modo{uppurat• Such :1, one Plutarch fa1th, ts hurtful tn~ mtli~ .e{t uri deed to others, but moft of all to htm[e!f. t11a~ fi~ mane- And Galen, when he had £aid men are rt ,~ta Hnpr~bo '(h d , . h death firG: that livina mo1z quaUJ 'lJJ- pum e VVlt ' bo 'IJtrt. they ni'ay not hurt , next that others y fea:r of punifhment rna~ be deterred,adds, .And thirdly,it is expedJent for the~fclv~s to dye, being fo fick._and corrupted tn thetr mind , that they cannot be re..flored to health. Some think, thefeare they whom 1 John S· 16. John the Apoflle faith do fin to death: but becaufe the arauments hereof are fallacious ; we are ~aught by charity to have no man for deplored ' a~d pafi hope ; ~0 that punifhment for th1s end can have place but very feldome • LX X XV. Of puni(hment jor his pro· fit who was ~ffended. An of revenge hr the Law of N11tions. .,; Etiam huju~ T. ·He * utnity ot hi~, again a ~hofe i?~ rei in fcris terefl the fa tilt was made, lS herem , imar,oqua:- placed ,'that he fuffer the hke no mor.e '· dam. Uo m a- neither froni the fame nor others. GclltttS t.IM!Ltrlf pltnam r b . h when the t(JJJ{urgit. out of Taurus de!Cri es 1t t us : . Plin.·HHt.nu. diunity or authority of him that tS n:ffirona. I6. ged is to he maintaind' left pretermt tod of the peflalty breed conte~~t ~( him,.dn f diminifh his refpeEf .. Wh~t ts Here fatd ~f authority wronaed, lS tO De underfl:oo . 0 every ones hbercy or ot he r' 1'·1g h-t, wh erdh1e . ,; he is injured~ In T¥tr:itm we read , He fhould provide for hiJ {ecurity by a juftre• venge. That the injur'd party may not fuffer wrong from the fame hand, three ways may be taken : firG:, by defiroying the perfon that hath offended; iecondly, by weakmg his force that he may not be able co do hurt; and lafHy,if he be taught by his own evil to do fo no more , which is the fame with emendation, whereof we fpake even now. That the injur'd party may not be hurt by others, iseffeeted,not by every punitJ.tmem , but that which iS' open , confpicuous and exemplary. If then;to chefc ends, and within the bounds of equity, vindication be dire&ed, though p~ivate, if we refpe6t the bare Law of , Nature, ab!haCl: from Laws Divine and Human, and from all not nccdfary acCi-dents to the thing ; it is not tinlawfull ;; whether it be made by him that is wron-g. ed, or by anather, feeing it is conf-enta• neous to nature that man ihould receive aid from man. And in this fenfe may be admitted,thatCicero,having faid,the Law Dll mt 2., of Nature is that which comes not from nv ' opinion but innate venue , among the examples of it placeth Vindilacion,which he oppoferh to Favour: and that none might doubt how much he would have' to be underfiood by that name, he defines Vindication, whereby by defending or rl-venging "PPt k.!ep off forTt and ,contume/1 from m,aNd our1,who o_ught to~e dear Hn• y ~~ |