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Show Cap. 3· XX. Of jull: and folemn War by the Law ot NatiOJlS. Between whom tkK war u : and, that it muft be d~nounced. · ~Part. I. 38. ABove* we began to fay, that a jufi war, in approved authors , is often called fo , not from the caufe whence it a~ rifeth ' nor from the greatnefs of the ach. , ons,but by re~Jon of (orne effects of Law, What this war is , is bett underfl:ood by the definition of enemies in the Roman L.l1~"~s de verb. Lawyers. Enemies are they, who agait;ft foL•t~hif~ D d m,or againftwhom we do publd?jy deem ~~•J iov,i.tl!.s, • e war: t he ref t are_ t h reves or robbers, fai~ Pompomm:and io faith Ulpian too."Wherc · what they fpeak of the Roman people: we mufl: underHand of every ti1prerne Philip. 4• power_ He h· an enemy~ t'a1th Cicero , who hath a Commonwealth, a ( ourt, a Trca[ury, confcnt and concord of {it hem, ~nd fome W"Y , tf oc-c :zjion he, of pe~tce and leagHe. Yet doth it not prefently ceafe to be a Commonwealth. or City ,if it corn· mit fame ut jufl: at!, even in Common; nor is a company of Pira ts or Robbers a Commonwealth , though perhaps they *Turbahlmi- ~eep a ki.nd of equality ainong thet~· ,.um n·JZlcge felves , wtthout which no company lS eo1g_ egrtta, (ed able to confift. For, Thefe affoci•t th~rn· inj'teftittif carifa felves to do mifchief~ : , They, although in-r4atrt-~ toaaa. fometimes they are not without fault, yet PVraoncdoa pl1iucso r2 . • ho l d 1·o c·t ety to ma'm ta·m n•g ht , an d t he y • . do do right to others , if not in all things according to the Law ofNaturc (which, a-mong many people , is in part oblitera-ted:) at leafl: according to .agreements mad.e with every other Nation , or according to cufioms. So the qreekJ, at what time it was accounted lawful co cake fpoil at Sea , abHeined from flaughtnsand populations by night, and from llc:aling Oxen that plowed , as the Scho- Lib. x. liaft upon Thucydidrs obferves. And o-ther N:1tions living alio upon the fpoil , when they were come home from Sea , fent unto the owners to * redeem ( if* TaltJ & iflj they pleafed) at an equal rate~ what they ~uor~~ s~~~~ were robbed of, as Strabo iaith. Now me11l171Jt) l1bro the principal, in mor:~ l matters, is in- ~1; fie ad of the fo1_m ; and, as it is right! y 1 • 11 ' faid by {icero , and Galen , The denomi· Cic.de 6nib.f. 1Uititm u giv:n from the Y. reater pa1 t. Ext~ quod Wherefore the fame {iuro rpeaketh too max!m114 pa~ttJ cru de 1 y , 1.a ym. g .H l hi s t h.tr d De '.1.. -)J ,: ptt b/ 1- mcoun}'m fuwn, dliatutJr/ Ji· ca, where is an un jufl: King , OI unjuH m t~ta apptll~- Senators , or an un jufl: people , there is wr. . not now a vicious , but no Common- GaletUJ t-¥~lt4 wtalth.Which fentence S, .Auff'tljln cor- ~:cat 0'~49 1 ~· .a.• r_ . 6 ,..,.. urr m-ftettng a.atth, Yet I jhal notthereforecon- ~.,~,. tlmlt It to be no people , 11or Com men- De c1vit. Dei{. 'llt~l1h, {o lang as there remaineth "ra- ''· '· &4· ti~~~Al multitude jfJyntd together i1: 11 fo-,. . t1JJI1 Commuttion of thin(s which they ~nft~tle lov * A d' r. r d b d · '" h l r fa ;th, 1f one I • 11ea1e o y IS nevert e e1s a roo far ftrercb the power of :t 'r' ,orof1he people, the C~mmonwealth at firft be£omc~ vi~ t ous ~ a.fccrward J,lOne. f. dt rep. '. 9· body: |
