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Show 336 of WAr 4nd Peace t Cujus & hoc Cit t m'ay be fpoken jufl:ly: We will do )'OU. eft de B-e~ef.7. all the gvdd that can now be done you, and ~~;~1~1~::x~~- put you to death.,~· A~1d ,~hat alfo of tfihc tur remedium 1a.me Author ; Tr.;ere u vut one way or r~; 11ptimttm9; them tq ceafe to be ewil , that is , to ceafe t{i abire ei,q ·~i to be. Like wife faid Eufebius the P hiload (t uunq.~~am fop her. This then, be fide what hath been rtdltlm&~ e1.. r. . . h b . · f ·k b r "'Lib. 1• de ira 1a1d m t e egmmng o our wm. , e anl- '· 16, '· 1 $. wer' d to them, who would have e1ther all, or capital pundhments, without any exception , forbidden ChrifHans: contrary to the Apo!l:le5 do&rln, who hayinz included in the reg~JI office the uie of the fword, as the exercife of Divine revenge, in another place exhorteth to pray, that Kinos may be made Chriflians, and, as Kin~s be a proteCtion to the innocent. Thi~ ~annat be obtain'd (fuch is the im· probity of a great part of me_n, even after the propagation of the Golpel;) unlefs the boldnefs of fome b~ reprdfed by the death of others : and thus too , among fo many puniilimentsand executions of the t Yea and of guilty, innocency is hardly en~ugh fecuthe Romans, red. Neverrhelefs, it is not am1fs, ~oprogreat part, of pofe to the imitation of Chrittian Rulers, whom no man, at leaft: in fomc part, the example of Sa-after the 1'17- f r \ · · y . L bacon t Kino o Eg)·pt, ror 11s ptety ver Han aw ' r b o h C . 1 . fl... encs could bepuuo r~mous , y w om aptta pumwm ' death or bea.- with moll: happy fuccefs , were commu· ten, except a ted for tasks , and m:1lefaCl:ors condem· Traitor,or ned to work ' as Di~dorm relates : and onecvndem· ned by the Strabo faith, thereare fame Nations neer people. Caucafus 4m.Dn0' whom the g.rcatejf ojfen- ' ~ dtrt The /tco»ti 337 ilert rec~ived not the fentence of death. L~b. 1 . Nor is that of ~inti/ian to be defpifed, LL~bb.xr. . 7\l' '//d b I. ·r . l, d 1 •• ~. Io J.'¥'0 manw1 ou t,o#t ~ wtc'le men m.A..J J,y any means be recalled unto a right mind, M Jo'metimes it is k.pown they may, it u berter for the Commonwealth to Jave, than to deflroy them. Balfamon notes , that the ~man Laws, which impofed penalty of death, were moft of them chan-ged, by the later Emperours being Chri-fiian t) into other puniiliments "'; to the t Vide apud end , a deeper impreffion of repentance N~czrum Jib,. might be made upon condemned perfons, I.Jur~memu.nt d h . f h · {h I fa act Anteh a~ t e contmuance o t e pum ment Idem Jcanni$ m1ght ferve the more for example. Comneni lm· perium fine .morte cujufquam fu.Hfe a it. Vide de Zen one Mal~hum ; & Augu' uftini c:pifr, 1 ~8. & I f9· :1d Martellinum Comttem. Et Chryfofl. f. adv. Jud:ros.) ubi de Caini pzna. ,. Ad opera maxime. Augallin. epift. r6o. Atiaui utili opm ilfte&r• efP·um memb(a in(cr- 'Ciiant. Vide: & Nc:etarii ~pift. ad Auguftin. quz dl 2.01. • X C. Three Inferences from the former 1J oilrine. OUt of thefe things lall fpoken , it may be colleCted how unfafe it is for a private Chrlflian, whether for his own . or for the publick good , to take puniiliment of any wicked man,efpccially capital. though we have.faid it is tometimes perm'ttted by the Law of Nations. Whence the manner of thofe people is to be commended, amongH whom fuch as .. &o to Sea. have commiffion from the pub- Z .~ck |
