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Show of WAr ,.,J 1tAce . . . ;: ,. con6'tletadon of the guile fet afide, is law- ~ i .• ,i ~ , fuJ. , n e-xample of the former is in Chrifi, who ell his companions going to Emmaus, tu~~~1~· t;s.l 1fh1de M t·hough he would havq gone farthlr'; unlefs we had rather underfiand,he l1ad really an intent to go farther,Excepc they con{hained him to ·fiay;as God al!o is faid to will many things which are not M~r ... 6'. • 8 • done, and elfwhere ChriH himfelf is faid to ·h-ave been willing to pafs by the Apo• · ~ files rowing , to wit, except he were earnefily entreated t~ come ~tp into the jhtp. Aet. · I~. 3; Another exan:ple may be given in PaN!, who circumciied Timothy, when he well knew the Jews would take it fo,as if the precept of Circumcifion, which was indeed abolilhed, did fiill oblige the I[r~~tlites, and as if P~e~tl~nd Timothy were of that opinion : when yet P aut meant not this, but only to procure unto himfelf and Timothy a more familiar way of Conver· fation wtth the Jews. Nor' did Circum• cifion any more, che Law Divine taken away, pmpofely lignify fuch neceffity, nor was the confequent Evill of the pre- ,· fent errour , after to be correCted , of (o great value, as that good which Paul had his eye upon. namely , the infinuation of Evangelical Truth. This fimulatton the t S( )l._t_ u. ·t o be Ghre' ek .F athers often cali iuuro,ulart. Of . ~ailed, not w tch IS extant an e"cel!ent fentence -~·frauds, fairh Chryfoftom in his fidl Dt S•ttulotio. The fame in his upon t Cor. 4. 6. This was not fraud, but a kind of compli:mce ~nd aif· pcnfatjon. Hither may be referred David's counterfeit madnefs. of 'Iht third Pari. of (lnnens e,A.le7ax;drinH.S fpeaking of~ . good man rh~s : For the g_ood of hu Ltv. I. f· Neighbour.he .will do Jome thmgs, whtc~ otherwife of hu o~n a~ cord , 11nd by ~ pr~- mary intention he would not do. Ot th1s fort is that in the war of the Romans, w ~o threw loaves from the Capitol i~to the gua.rds of the enemies , to pf'l ffds ~hem with a belief,that they were not iheltne.d with hunger. An example of the later .lS in a feigned flight, iuch as Jofhua gav~ m Jof. 8 • command to his men , that they m1ght conquer tAi · and other Captains often. . . b For here ' t·h e' nocument t ha t f o.l l o~s we bSe1llvl. ' Ptl·' l xv. enr. 9o. prove .to be la w.full _from the JUfbc~ of war ; and the fltght It felf , by a ppomt-ment fionifies nothing , although the e-nemy ,take it as a fign of fear , which m~- tlake the other is not bound to acqutt him of ufino his liberty to go hither or thither ;nd with more or lefs fpeed, and in this or' that pofiure or habic. Hither alfo is to be referred their aet who are frequent ... ly read to have u~ed the ~rms,enfigns,ap-j> arcl, fails of theu .enemies. _For all thefe things ar~ of that kmd, that they may be ufed of any at his _pleafure, eve!l con.tr~ry to cullom ; becauie the cufl:om 1t felf ts In-troduced at pleafure of every one , not as by common confent , and fuch a cuilome .obligeth no man. VI I I. . |
