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Show .· Of W4f '4tlli P14Ct tate that vengeaJ;.lCO ~f Goq : n<Pr i~ .th~ reafon alike : b~aule, as we h:}ve latd, Gad , w\tha~t ilit~\tion of the (aul~ hath .-rig~t over the l.tf<;; men £1a.ve q~t, but up-f. pwe gre'at cri1"e , and iuch as 1~ d\e. p.er- . 6 fans own. Wheref.ote ,_ thf\t fajlle D1vme Dear. 2-4· 1 • · c b . ~ t b ,. Ama+i.ahfor Law , as tt ~or ct:s parfn s to 1. ~ put .to example. death for chetr chtldren , fo forb tds chtl· Jof:ph.lib. t.. dren to be put to death for. the dee?s of Phllo delc1~· ·their parents Which Law p10us "' Km~s,. ft lib 2.. tOC.· • ~~ftr .... Dionyf. as we read , have followed,_ even m the lib. 8. cafe of Treafon ; and the iame Law is t Who fait~, very rnuch Frayiedby Jojephus and Philo, that cqflom as a like Eg·yptian Law by !focrates, and was prop~r to · :fi H t· r tbe Romans, a 7\!!man Law by Dt?nY. suJ ~ tcarna3- tofree the {enjis t· Plato hath aiaymg, :'htc? (_all:· chil4r7n from ftra.t us the Lawyer expreffeth m th1s ienle, tl puntlhment, t The crime or punifhment of the fat her wliofe parents b h r H dd were d e 1m. - can i1zJ!"l ifl no lot upon t e Jon. e a es qucms. The ~he cauie. For every on~ bears that lot, fameisina which hi.r own dotngs have drawn for La~ofthe him. nor is he made [uccej{orofanother'J W1ligothsl.6. ' c· r · h,.. l'J ( • 8 crime. tcaro 1a1t ; Wou a any om-tit. I.£. . d h L . t tL.c;·irnen.D .. monwealth ef'J ure t at aw-g:vcr.' 7 ~ P.ceni-1. . who[e Ordinance the fort or grandchtld ts L:b. 4· de condemned, if the Father or Grandfather t'IZilpt.h~lciiYrtm. be a Delinquent? H,ence it is, that, to put r o com-- . h h'ld mends thefe (O death a woman Wlt c t , was ac· Laws in his counted a wicked thing, in the Laws of boo~ ofHu- the &'!Jptians, Greek.!, and Romans t· mantcy. L •. lm· Mol·eover if thofe human Laws be un" trator A dr~a· ' · h h'ld r he ~~.v. dtftatujuft, which do flay t e '. 1 reo ror t s· bominum. L. parents offenfe~, more unJUH furely w~ pr~egn1211tis. D. the Law of the Perji{l~.s ami· M;lcedom.. , de p~nis. 11ns, 11111 ; rle'fotirig alfo and ddlroying the lives of kinfmen *, to the end the offen-. .. Philb-fald,ic ders aoa.infi the Kinu might fall the more was the man[ ttdtv ,0~i C-urtius fpeaks: a Law, f~ith ner ohftyran.ts 1 , -· .J / ~ • ,..1 d to&et er Wll 1 J'lmmianus .1vucellinus *, chat excelle thec~ndem~ alf tl1e Laws in the worl<i, in cruelty .. ned, to ~eNotwith! landinoall this it: is to be no~ ftroy five tami~ ted,if children eft:r~itors have any thing, miftlies 1of~ee- o, r ca. n e:xpe.\ f.cd-. any I . h' I l re re :mon. t 11Jl0 , to w IC 1 t 1ey See Herod ian~ nave no P,rpJ>h, ri~ht ' but the right i~ in lib. 3. and the the peopk or Ki.ng , that may .be taken. ex~~ple at fron'l them by a certain rioht of dominion Mllam~ when h · I" • ~ ~:;. f' ' 0 d I P Galeauus was t e UJe wudco. ~ yet, 1pa,y re ound to the .Oain in Be- .P.unilhincn't ofthole that• ~av~ offendcq. ~arijs',m. 14~ Hither iS to be referd that pt Plutarch, ''HeEallsltin tou~hino the Children of t!A'ntiphanes -a abom~nable traitor, that rhey were fe{;t back.Jro;n ho- Law:,v:;.d,e & . nou.r s .. , a. s at R ome ,t 11 e c h'i J f h r. conCJ. o et.4. 1 uren o t o~e,.. Simiterepmes ... that ~e~e profcrib~ d by ~ulla. So, in the in c. in qstib!~f· fore !a 1cl Law of Arcadtus that js tole- dam de pce;zM. :Yible' foi: t11e cl1i1dren ; Le; them not he t P~lilo of the .J • • d I ,rr; fubJecls of the t!av11nce ~o ·a~y fJonour, nt r ro any oJ1.ce s. King ofE y t ·What we nave ia'id Of pmilifi1ing children in Abrah:~~t A9r their parents faults,may, be applyed al- ti~ue,f2i.th, All 4"6 to a people truly fubjet't (for a people h1s fam1ly nof (t~bjea, th'rough their own faulc, that wt~rhcfart.akers • • c.- . 1 ~ · 1. b . o t c pam~ .,is. ror , t 1e1~ n'eg 1gence rna y e punilht , bt'caufe none · as we have taid :) if it be enqu~r·d,whe- was difpleafd ther that people may fuffer for the cvi! atthe unjuft deed of their 1\in o ' or Govern our. We do aCt, bur a_U by ' u · 1 - - • f h"D ' • • approtlat ·on • not me~n. ~ 1_ t e people:s ,con~ent be ad- were pan.akers <fed t, or any deed of theus by It [elf wor- ofir. Jofcphus, _ . where l,s re-btes the prop~cy'utt-erc:d 3gitin"ft Jeroboam addech The peo. .ple fhall be punilht tQo, and be expeld out ~f that h;ppy land :. D d 3 and |