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Show . ojWttr4ndPeAce ~ doni~ in Herodotm blames the .qrecians in this refpett :who being of one langut:~ge jhoHld have determined their (o.ntroverjies ,by Commi.Jlioners, and not hy battell. ·Corio/anm in Ha/icarnej[enjil: If one defire not t'tnothers, but feek his own, and upon ~enial makf war , all men conjefs it to he juft. In the iame H alicarnej[enjis King Tu/lus .- Arms muft decide, what words are not able to compofe. Vo!o.gefeS; in Tacitm: I had rather preferve my .Anceftors pojfe.Jlions, by equity than hlood, by a Calf. 3· Var. fair tryall thtm by force. And King Theo._ 1 7• t/,priom: Then o~tly is it projitttb.le to go to ·war., when Juftice can find no place among our v!dverfaries. Another way to avoid war, among them that have 110 !=Otnmon Judge,is Compromife .It is n;ot-lawful,faith Thucydides, to invade him as i17juriom, who t s ready to Jubmit to an Arbitrator . So , concerning the Kingdom of Argos , _ _Adraftm and Amphiaram made Eriphyles .. -=: · their Judge , as :Diodorus rel~tes. Con .. · ccrning S,alamis, three L acedt£monians were chofen judges between the A the. nians and Megareans. In the now ... cited Thucydides, tqe Corcyrea.m fignify to the Corinthians their readine[s to debate their · ' quarels before the cities of Peloponnefus, which they £hould agree upon. And (P~ricles is commended by Ariftides, for hts willingnefs to .h{lve differences arbitr~ted, 0 rat. :1 dv enr, . that war mi..!., ht be avoided. . And Philip fi Ctdi,p~onr. ./J1~ce4fm is praifed by Ifocr.atu:, for that he . 7he fec6na Part. 4-l, he wafready to permit the Controvcrfies he hadt with the .Athenians to the arbi~ tra.tion of any impartia:l City . . Plutarch faith , this was the principal office of the F eciales among the Romans, not to fujfer thingsto come to a war, till all hope ofoh-ttinirtJ; a quiet end WM !off. Strabo of th.e Druids of G a Ilia : They wert ,of old, arbt-. trators between enemies, and often pacified them when they l'Vere entring ifJto batte/1. . . The Priefis in Iberia performed the fame r-', 1 aor. rlt J«r 8 t office, as t he 1r ame A ut h or tem11· fi es. N ow, tv tG r·e'fgllolmra.4l. ti•f l. Chriftian King s and Commonwealths t 10,deAlex. are mofi of all bound to take this cour!e Butgaro : It_ is . t0 a void war: for , if to a void the fen- uCnhc~~~Jy for tcnces of Judges that were a 1t.e ns fir om true makneu ftuacnhs tbioC:. O: Rclioion, certain Arbitrators were con- rerwars afiimfed both by Jews and Chrifiians; and gainfi: one :anthat is oivcn in precept by Par.el · how other, when 0 much m?re .~ s h r: b d ' h they may find t e 1ame to . e one , ~ at a way of peace, -war, whtch IS a far grearer mcommodtty, and turn their may be avoided ? So Tertul!ian fome- arms aj?;ninft where argues, that a Chrifiian mufi not the ~nfid.els • follow the wars~to whom it is notla wful, .:M 1 ollfin.ndifpU::... L Wh• h {1 OJ, EIIJo tJU-- [O much as to go to aw. tc yet mu 1: do nzter. be underfl:ood, (according to what we have {aid elf where) With iome tempera-ment. And , both for this and for ocher caufes, it were profitable, yea in fame fo rt necefary to be done , that fome Aifem-blies ofChrifiian powers were held, where the controverfies of others might be deter-mined by Judges that are unconcerned ; yea ,·and a courfe taken to compell the parties "" |
