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Show ofW~tf 4nti Puce Hck p·ovver, to purfue Pyrats, if they find any ; that they. rna y ufe the occafion given·.not as by theu own adventure, but publi~kly commanded. Not unlike to this is another cullom rece'lv• d in many t Chryfoct. de plac~s, that unto criminal accufations t P:eilitentJa s. are admitted, not all that pleafe, but err· Opti~~mi~aq;, tain men, upon whom, by publick au· Nt .dJ:tJ, t1t!1am thority that office is impofed : that no fr~vatlfl 1 ts ' . ll d' tmttrverttrt be- man may do any thmg at a ten mg to mgnu. tra1t{ta· the £hedding of anothers blood , but by llitmibH4 ,.~,a- the neceffity of hi~ office. Hither perteins · "'d''.'d'trn d•dr'~l.a~t the canon of the Eltberan Synod : If any tl 1 q~s 1 es 1 b h . jibi ,propofleu"! believer turn inforn:er, ana y u accU• bt~bent: pu6l•· Jation any be profcnbed or put to death, !or~"! auttm Our decree is , that he fhall not , no not at -JNdw.orum ac- the end receive Communion. lafH y , this 1ufatzoues, 1I01J ' • • h h be dieam tranji- alfo is undcrfl:ood by wha~ . at . en · ~,endubrumpe- faid , that a man truly Chnfhan .Is not re, f~d~rmq.ttt~m irell advifed, nor doth it become ~1m, to flU mc1pere. affett and thrufi him(elf into publ1ck Qft An fo:~pienti ficcs t that have judgment of blood, a~1d capeffe':lda fi.~ think and profefs it fit, that powel' of life refpublJca, YI- and death over his fellows fl.1ould be dde Se~e~So:~m commhted to him , as mofl: excellent of e otto a- n piencis. all , and as it were a G~d among me · ~ For certainly what Chn£ladmontfheth, · that it is dano~rous to jt.Jdge of others, be· Mattb .. 7~ 1.~ caufe fuch judgment as we give~ muft w~ in like cafes expeCt from God ,.1s not tm pertintnt- in this pl-ace. · XCI. whether human Lawi that permit the killing of fome men, give the kjllers It true right hefore God, or only impunitJ a-mong men. THis is a rioble quetlion , and Covarru• C#V/11', :,. dttr. vias and Fortunim anfwer, that tuch n. '·1· n. 8. Laws give only impunity: whofe opinion ~~rp:~~de. is io ditpleafing to F crdinandus Vafquim , illai. 11, "'' that he caJls it an ungodly opinion, VA[q. ltb.4. No doubt , as we have laid c:lfwhere, contr.i(lu(f. the Law may do both , in certain c(lp. a. Cates ; but , whetheritwil/ or no, is to be underftood partly by the words , partly by the matter of the Law. For, if thr. Law give indulgence to paffion, it takes rJ..way human puni'£hmem , not the fault,. ·as in cafe a husband kill his .Adulte- . . . taus Wife, or the Adultertr •. B'~at if the • Pi~~"t.uft. La w re1rp e\,;.1a.. t hc da n,12er of fiu tur'e ev1·1 1 by d'tt Attwu1mt1 1ctt 7,J;I1 . u..1 e Ia y of pum·1w1.. ment,l• t 1• s to be concei.v e de"u •q;, ,at.tqf• · to g1'ant right and publick power to a pri· 2.3. qH~t{i. i. vate man, fo that now he is not private. Of this kind is that Law jn ]u{fhtians , {ode, under the rubric, quando liceat unicuiq; &c. -Where everyman hath licence given him to oppofe force againfi: plundering and. pllhging Soldi~rs ; this reafon being added :' For It is lietter t~ meet ':'ith them it time • than to [eek rt,~ rejs after the injury d~ne~· We th~refore 1trmit yoR to defend & avmJ.e yoHT' fe/:vei, · Z l And· |