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Show 4to of w~r 4nd PtMI E pifcopus ab ingrelfu Ecclefiz oppoficu bJ(Uli pa. fto~alis ~rccret, & regii capulis a~movercnt manum, fecit quCla · ~ptf,optcrat, & cervicelll porrextt. C X I I. Of a de fire to fulfill Prophecte s. THis alio I will add (not in vaiu,but becaufe comparing new occurrences with old , I forefee much mifchief, except care be taken .; ) that war is not jultly . grounded upon a hope conceiv'd out of ~:::~~4=~-:mhto- fame expofition _of Divine Prophecies t· Gr 11 tianittmpo- For, befide that Oracles not yet fulfill'd rt Z•~imum & ca? hard.ly be interpreted with any cer· .Ammz~um tamty Wlthout a prophetical fpirit * the Mam/lmum : · f h' . ' d J . c • tunes even o t m~s certam may be hid e o.tnne a. LJ Jntdoct Pro'o- · from us. And moreover , a prediCtion, pium Perjico· without exprefs command of God, oiveth fum 2., C: no right: for, by wicked men, or ~njuft Leuncla'TJJUm .n: G d d h f . . H~n T ~ 1 a~,;llOns , o ot o t-wnes penmt the , JJ• • Ul '· • h' h h h c 1 a. t mgs e at roretold to come to pafs. 1 tt For the Pro-phetical book Ill are !hut ~nd fealcd up til the a ppe-inted time, (o that they cannot be undedlond, D.tn. 11.. 4, 8, 9· Hierom up&~ Daniel; If a Prophet heard and did not undcdland, whac will they do, who, by prcfumpr1on of mind, inte rpreter a book feaied and very obfcurt:: until the time of cor.fummat;on. Procopius i~ tbt :t. of his Gott hic~s ; I think it irnpJffible for man to Jind oUI the fenfe ohhe Sibyl11ne Or:tcles before they ar~ fulfilled.Grego· rlt4 in his S, boo~; As other p.redtCti.ons are moll: hard to be inter· preted, becaufe chey have many perplexiri.es and a mic fcrvc· nl explications-: fo alfo this Oracle dece:ved all, even the Em· peror himfdf, as long as he liv'cl. But after his dei1Lh,rhe Oracle explaned it felf. Take heed to your felves, yee over-bold Di· vine~: Take heed of overbold divines, yee Sratefmen. Worthy isthac place to ~e feen inThuanus.lib. 7~· in .an, 1581· con· ccrning Jacobus Brocardus. . CXIll. C x' I I I. Of that which is due, not by ftriCt jujlice ~ ~u~ ot herwi[e. ANd t.bis is alfo to be known , if OD# owe a thipg,not by proper juHice,but by another ~ertue, as liberality , favour, n1ercy, chanty; that, as it cannot be required in the Court , fo neither can it be demanded by arms. For to both of thefe w~ys it is nat iufficient, that the thing re.,- ' qmred ought to be done by fame moral reafon , but moreoyer it is needfull there ~e in us a certain right unto it: which nght f0metimes divine and human L1 ws do give alfo about ~he duei of other ver"T t).les, .a?d then a new kind of debt arif~th · pertetnmg unto JufHce. But when that is wanting~ ! war upon this caufe is unjuft; as, that of the Romans upon the Kino of Cypru~ for !1is inoratitude. For, he ~hat hath gtven a bene~,hath no right to exa~ a re,ompenc.e ; i qtherwife , it were not a bene6.t· , but a co~tra9l'.. · C X IV. eA.diftinEfion ofwttr fln• li )1/ in re!peEt ~f the cau(e ,' or o[Jome accident. . . QNe thing more is to be noted, It often Vili:. de jure . . falls out, that a war may have a juH belli R. ~. c~~re ' and yet the acHon receive feme flam from the minde of the doer : either for that fome other thing , not unlawful by |
