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Show q{ W~r ntl Pt4ce who hath done amifs. There is. a mean ( faith Ct'cero ) trJ be obferved in revenge . and pt~<ni(hment 7 amll cannot tell~ whe~ .t~er it be not enough~ that he repent of his t Proeo,iUJ fault who hath provok.fd us t. · eA. wife Vandal. t.. man ( faith Ser;e~a ) will remit many ~heQifenders' •things: many delinquents, unfound , yet t'mely_ Repen~ 130t' HncurAble, he will peferve. ranee 1s wont to prevail with • . th.e offended party,, and obt~m h1s p:trqon. :· ' . C X X ~ I I. War is to b~ qeclined, in favour of our [elves. and our own party: · WE have lhewed caufe to abllcin from war out of that love and pi. ty which we either owe to our very enemies , or rjghtly bdlow upon . them :We are now to confider what rea· th'_*P r~co_pid~s 10 fon there is from that care we owe.to our u:con rt • . book of the 1el ves and ours t. Plutarch in the:! llfe of Gorchics,faith Numa faith, After the F eciales bad dethe Goths termined, that the war might be undertBJ> J1~~ tl~us toi ~akcn J·uftly, it was confulted l..y theSe· e uanus · t · . · · "' toncernstl~e nate, whether it were for their good, Ina Commander~ certain Parable of Chrifl:'s it is !"aid, }f o.t both ~a- one Kino intendeth war againlt another, t tons ,hn~t he will fuH fit down (which i~ the polture 10 pure a1e f r r . · · · their owa ~lo- o tho1e that 1enouily ady1ic ~bout a q1at· U 2t fo great a, ; . . , pri~e as the undo!ng of their peopie • ·bur to prc:fer 2nd chufe things juft and fafe , as well for themfelves as fo! their ~ncmies, :piodotus in Thucydides faith, AfthOu~.h they :m~ ver-y guilcy,yct wo.ul4 1 no,c have tilem tlain,.cXc:epc it QC expe~iei)t fQr ·~s, [jb,J)· _ · 'l : ter . Thefe&~ntl te1·) and confider with hitpfelf whether he with his ten thoufand be able to enter battdl with his enemy that leadeth twen-ty thou{~md, And , if he find himfelf too weak,. before the 'enemy e,uter his territo-ries, he will fend Meffengers of Peace. So ,. . did the Tuf~ulans ~ , by enduring all VJit Ptu .. ~ht. ngs, and re fiu uc ng not h.'m g, ob t a.m t he tr tSao~ cdh.id C t4hneri ll. peace of the Romans. In, _Tacitm we King of Arme.: read , In vain did they feck a caufe of war nia in the t ime againft the v£,duam : Being1commanded, of Se~crus. to br t.n g money an d arms ,th e y a1 .r. b h Htrodzan l. ~ 1o roug t • :~ • provijionfreely. So fl.: Amala[untha *.pro-"' Pide Prcrct>Po] tefl:ed ·to the Embaffadors of Jufttf!ian, Vand~!. 2.. & ' ·fhe would by ·no means make war. A G~tth~~· I· temperament a lr1 0,. or nu'd -way may b c LLzibv.. l1~o•. 6. ufed , as Strftbo relates was done by Syr-mus King of the TribaJ.lia;ts, who denyed eAlex,znder the Mactdtmian entrance in-to the · Iland Peuce , and wit hall honou-red him with Gifts : that he might fhew his denyall to proceed from a juH fear , and not .from hatred or contempt of his Greatnefs. What Euripides faid of the Greci-an ·Cities may be fitly applyed to any· c:_>thet. when they_ give their votes .for war , no ''f11:an think} how imminent death ~to him[elf; but every one defttnes ruine to another. But if, in the Council, Their own Funerals had been prefented to their tys ; greciA had not been fo mad to de-ft. roj it [elf' 'with w11r t· I~ is in Livy : r. c: '· , .: ·• -t 'Da |