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Show of W•~' 411~ PI'Aet many like fayings, fpok~n by vyay of ex .. cefS'or excellence. And 1{1 the iame Holy Scripture , Jud~a alone comes oft under • Hieronym the title of the world* :in which fenfe is Nor~en ume' to be taken that p]d faying of the Jews, tt.iam r;rJt~j ad- that the City of Jerujalem is feared in dum_partu~ta. the m'1 dfl: of the earth , i. e. oft Judct.t:t: ~~~~d~e~;::.g' as i~ the mid~ of Gr~cia Delphi, likcwife rl'gfoi'lcm de qlfa call d the na vtl of the W€lrld. Nor ought fermo t~. any one be mov' d with ])ante's argu· t Difca~ hoc mcnts wher~by he endeavours to prove ~x {0 fi lit J · the Emperour hath fuch-a right , becaul~ i.~c.e 2.~ 1~ • it ]s expedient for mankind. For the com· Arin. 1. Fol\c. modi ties hereof are t!qualld with inuem· +• modities. And as a thip may be made of i~ch a greatnels which cannot be governd; io may the number of men and diHance of places be fo great , that it cannot admit Silv. verbo the government 0f one. But , grant it is Bellum. P· 1 ' expedient , there follows not a right of ~0~;;_ }(>co Empire , which arifeth not but but either ~itato ~· 9· from conCent , or puniibment. Nay, the Roman Emperour now hath not right 0ver all that of old perceined to the people of Rome. For , many things , as gotten by war, fo were lofl: by war ; fome hy covenant, and fome by dereliction paflcd into . . the right of oeher nations or Kings t· t E~tmp~um f!'· Again , fome Cities fully fubdued op<;e, m.e '" Hl{pama, afterward became iubject only in part or ch qua v1de G9- c d · ' f. tJJttium in feet. only co.nte erate unequally. :All ~hete fue,.atnttm.1· ways, euher of lofing or changmg nght, d' t~tfionii. are or force , D? lefs againft the .Roman Emperour, than any other.' CIX. \ C X I. Of the Empire bf the ehurch. THere have been alfo, who would af .. ViCl:. de Ind. ' fert , the Church hath rioht over the rcJ, u. & feq.· Nations of th~ hitherto unk~own part of Ayala J. 1• ri. t~e earth : when yet the Apofile P11ut 19· htmfelf hath openly pronounced, He had 1 Cor. 1· u. no power to judge thofe that ~re with-out. And whatfoever right of judging be-longe~ to .th~ Apofiles, though it pertai-ned ~lio, 10 lts way, to_ earthly things,yet ·Was It of a heavenly (that I may fo fpeak) not of an earthly quality; to be exerci• fed, not by the iword and fcourge, but by ~he Word of God generally propoied, and app.li:~co peculiar circumflances , by the exh1bmon of the feals of divine grace , or the denyal of them,as it was for the good of every one: and laflly' by vengeance, l,lOt natural, but above nature , and ther-fore pr?ceeding from God; fuc'h as ap-peared m v'/naniM, ElymM, Hymenttm ~nd others. ~hri{~ ~im[clf, the fpring of all Ecclefiafhcal power, and whoie life is the exemplar propofed to the Church as fuch, faid , his Kingdom was not of ~his . world, that is, not of {uch a nature as o- Jo. 18· 36• , thl er Kingdomes: addino otherwife after MV.adtrbp. z.6.S'3. '::J' ' 1 • etr. t le r. ma.nner o! ot.her Kings he would ufe Dam.l.4 .epi4. the .c;vtce of ioldters. But now althouoh J, & Bern, ep·. he had defired Legions, he w'ould ha~e au. called for , not thofe of men, but of An- E e · gels. |