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Show nilh91ent,by reafon of the iu jullice inhe. herenc in their atl .. And thus Plato approves of war, unttl they that .are guilt! be tompe/J f() 1>111f<! {atiJfaUion to the in: 11/JCent, whom they have wronged. lli. The t~i~d R~~t. Some thing1 follow without tn;ury, which coHld not be lnwful-lf intended. THirdly, we mull obferve,Many thina~ follow upon the riohr of Doino i~t Vide Tb. 1 s. direaly ,.and without ~he purpofe ~~the ti. 1 3· art. s·. Doer t, to which there was no rioht dire~ olmamtr. :., ~Iy and by idelf.How thts hath t)place in difput. ur. ielf-defence we have explained elfwhere In like manner, that we may recover ou; own , if juA: fo much cannot be taken we ha~e a ~ight to take more ; yet under ~his o~l~gatwn , of teHoring, the price of that w.luch redounds. So may a fhip fill'd with P1rats, or a houfe with Theeves be· bat• tered with guns, though in the fame !hip or houfe are a few Infants, women oro- t Ntc rtt!5 ell h · mort:& a/im.e, t er innocent perfons thereby endange-i~ quit Augu- . edt· But , as we ha'\l'e noted ofren, that fbnus,q~t{uJe t!noc perfeCl!ly lawfu13Iways, whicha· poffijfionb'. muro· greeth with right £hicHy taken For oft-rum 11.m 1t11m . C . · , eirc•mduxit (i tJmes hamy to our neicrhbour will ntiquis ex i;[o- not permit us to ufe Llrid: ~nd extreme rum.r~fu pmuf- right. Wherefore , thofc things which ~~:ft:ef~~d happen betide our purpofe, and are fore-tH. P .feen that they may happen , mutt alfo be vvithin within. our Caution, unlefs the aood to which our aetion tendeth, be ri.JUch gtea- . ter than the evil which is feared: or, unlef~, when the gooQ and evil are equal, the hope of good be much greater than the fear of evil ; which is ltft to be determined by Prudence: yet io, that always in a doubful caf€ we mull:. incline to that part as uhe fafer, which provides for Amo-ther more than for our felves. Suffer the Matth. IJ.19, tArn to gr~w, (aith uhe bell Malter , left Th. 2.. z.q. while JfJU woHid pluclz.e!Jcrn "P , you pluck._ 64· art. "· up the wheat too. And Set~.eca fa1th, It Sen, in 6ne 1. i. the power ofF ire 4nd R11me to k.!ll ma ~ 1., de Clem. ny without making dtjference. Hil.lortes · teach us~ with \\'hat ferious repentance Tbe,dojiU& ~by v/m.brofe's Jireetton, e.x-piated. fuch immodefly of revenge. Nei- ~hcr is it to be d.ra wn by u_s into example, tf ~od at any ttme doth iuch a thing, by reaion of that molt full right of Domi-nion he hath oyer us~ which right be hath. not granted us. to ha. ve one over another , u we hne before noted. Notwithl.lan-ding • the lame God, Lo:<l of m(n by h1" own right, for the fake of a ~ery few aood . r. 0 men, ts wont to 1pare , even a oreat mul-titude of the bad;and thereby t~l.lifies his equity, as he is. a Judge~as the Conferenc;e . · · of A~,rah~~Jn wichGodconeernino Sodom Gen. I8. SJ · dearly lhews, us. A11d by thefe 0 creneral 8c fc4J.· mlcs it may be known,.how mu<lhis law· · ful a1ainll an enemy Nittlf'l(lt/ly. l.V. |
