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Show 0{ W~tr 4nd Pt4Ct fure chemfelves to enter into the depth of learning; • .. ;~1 onf~~·OI .,;, 1Dfli'r fWJit• _ ~The .company ofwife men hrint.r Let~rning and Wifedom unto Kmgs • •if. ...1 . • t .~ Ariftides faith, As in quellions offaCl: that is accounted for truth., .which is [upported by moll: and moll: iufficient witneffes ; 'io thofe fentences are to be fol~ owed, whi'ch are grounded upon molt and moll: worthy authorities. Thus the old 1\gmans eptred into war, not without confultin~( the College of the Fecia!es inlH~ uted for that end; nor the Chrill:ian Emperouts, ' fGa-rce ever ; without advifina wich the Biihops, that if any thing dia hinder in point of Religiot;l , they might be admomfht of it. CXVIII. In dou!Jtfnl cafes, t~ fa· fer way is to he takfn. Three ways to avoid a douht-fult war, NOw_, it ,may fall out in many Contro. ver.Ges , t~at on either .Gde probable arguments may ihew rhemfelves, whether imrinfecal tG the matter, or from au~ . thority. In this cafe , if the matter be of J final moment, the choice, which way foever it be , fecmeth to be free from fault. But, if it be a weighty quefl:ion , as con .. cerning the life and death of a man, here, becaufe of the great difference between · the The fecond Part~ 417 ~he things to be chofen , the fa fer way is to be preferred *. Therefore , it i~ better to acquit the guilty than condemn the in- "In iflam P•r· nocent. The writer of the problems that tempotitl4 pec-b h f _ A. :IJ. • tato tamen ear t e name o ll(!,n.rlpotle fatth fo • , Ammianu;: and addes the reafon which we have al~ Ltnit.ts aceroi- , ready given: For, where one doubts , he" tati anteponen- 1mejf chufe that part, wherein the ojfenfe is (la. lib. 2.8. . lefs. War is· a thing of the oreacell: confe-,. ;.rpo~·~!il_· 1 9· f h . b . . UrJJ ) 0 <t.,,x~ r ·lt,J quence, rom w tch very many evtls are vutgo legitu)· wont to follo-yv even upon the innocent : ~~ a'tflx~m,, & wherefore , when judgments differ, we contra. ~miJllUll: incline· tot peace. And three ways dphon:ns~erran~ · h b k C ' . um tJ., 1me · k t. ere c ~ tho . eep ontroverfies from brea- jttre abfotve•·e, ; mg rort . mto war.- The firll: is C onfe- q!tam per iujurence. Bemg there ar~ two kfnds of di[ctp- rwn condemtation, faith {ic~ro, one by conference, the r;re eft farz~ other by ftJrce; and th~tt is proper to man ;/t&olM;'l{ams.}" h. b ,IJ. , • trort•~, t tS to e~J.s :we muft fly to the later , if in tiamnatione we cannot ufe the former *.Phanea; in Li-infimtu facivy faith; To avoid a necefllty of war, men nm. do willing-ly remit many thi1Jgs,which can-not he forct4 from them by armst c.JUar- 5t !-1 _auldat 1 or · • 1 10 ra .co · Fabius: -cauta /peculator mente futuri Ntc l~etus dubiu parvifq; /4ctffire Jl!ar;em. ! De ()ffic. t · .Vil!or. de jure bel.n, 18, T~rentius: Om~111 preru e~pet·i~i quam 11rmu[apientem d,cet: • , • ~~ fcu '· ~~~ q~tt .JUbtam fine vi fa'ciat? ~unp1des .. VtrbJ !d 1mpetr11b1; fui nequto, maniJ, • J?ionyf.lial•carn. 1n excerpt is legation~-tm; No'IZ ante 11d reJ vtJJI~ Jldu~ e{l , 9~am ttnt~ta fit vtrkorum via. Menelaus apud Liba- . DI~m • B~mme convtJlltnllt/.4 ,pr~us ver6orum e:xptrimcntum facere guam fllltzllf ~d arma proftlire. t DonatU! ad Eunuchum • Pervrl ~~~um tJ! tndJm' '111~fum'!la ooi deftnder~ quutlJ extorq1;etur ho; ~m poJ.mo 1~m mmw remme11ti& ' donim |
