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Show of ·Witr ·~J PM'e addeth , It was done jure belli, by the rioht ofWar. Cicero f.or Deiotarus :.wh1 jh~utd he be an enemy to you , hy whom h~ might haw been kf:tled bJ the LawofWari llr whom he remembred he was m11d~ King, and his [om. And forM. Marce/. /us : when , by the conditio~ and right~ Viflory we were all dead men , we were preferved by the judgment o.f your Clemen- C~mment.l.7. cy. C£[ar to the H tt.duans Ggnifies, They were Javed by his favour , when the Law · of W.ar gave him leave to dejlroy them. Jofephus , in the war of the Jews ; It is honourable to fall tn War ; but ,by the Law of War, and hy the-ha'nd of the Conque- ;t Papin~ us: . • . rour t. Now, Ntc qutrzmur t.tf?s: _h.tc !Jellt&fl Jura v1ct{q; whe the[e writers .Armoram. Serv1~s m exccrpt1s Fuldmf. r k f 2d :z.. lEn, J tlre belli Politen py, rh~~& occ~de· 1 pea. o the LaW rat: fed cur ante oculos patru? Sparcianus or nght of War, Severo: pr.tttr tos qt~os jus 6tlli abftlmpfit. it appears by o· · ther places , they mufl: be underHood, not of that which frees the a& from all fault , bur of the impunity before mentioned. TacitHs faid , Caufes and merits are confiderd in peace; in War, the innocent and the guilty fall together. The fame, in ano· thcr place : Neither did the right of men fujfer them to honour that Jlaughter; ndT' the courfo of War , to revenge it, Nor is the right of War to be taken otnerwife when Livy tells ., how the Gr·eeks fp'ared v£n~.:ts and t.Antenor , b'e· cauft they had always perf waded unro Peacet S37 Peace t. Crprian•; Manjlaughter, »1hen tScnec. Tro2d. privllte men commit it,is lit crime:when it ~~od,unq; 1!- . b · L[, d • · 11•d 1\T butt factrt, 'ti~- 1Sf11 ltcrv:,y one, tzsca avert11e. J.-vot tl•rilicet.Etin rejpect of innocence , but greatne[J of the c:pift. 96. ~~ multy gives impunity to wick.fd .Afli- tOP1,ijJa ca,Pite ,,s. So Laflantius faith , The Romans lut!ent, tum. 1~ 1 L . . h . . . . b h . qu1a pllludatJ "'" egtttmate t e~r ln]Urtes y t etr ftctrunt lauda- P"'"· And Luci!ln's Jufq; ~arum fceleri, mtu. is of the fame fenfe ,t Law was given to* Cypr. epift. 'Wick!dne[s, :· con[enje~t Jurt~ ptccatu , & cctpit elfe ticitum IJHDd public11m tfl. Ibidem. t Phdrjll. I. XXVIII. Of Strangers found in an Enemtes Country. THis Law of Licenc'e is of large extent: for firfl:, it comprehends not ~.mly c~em that a&ually bear arms,or are lubjcch to him that maketh war , but alto al l rha t arc within the enemies Country :which is manifeH by the very form in L ivy Let Liv. l. 37· & h. b E d h h ' :~lihi pallim. 1m e our nemy , an t ey t at are n· ft 'tl & Wt.t hm. ht.s guar ds . Fo r , d: m ger may be qHuOi ;u ft 1 c, 1,tra pr te [i· feardfr.:>m them too, which, in a conti-diaej:t-Jfunt. nucd and univetlal war,fufficeth to make way for that right of which we (peak: otherwife than in pignorations, which,as we have faid , after the example of bur- .thens impofed , were introduced for the difcharge of publick debts : wherefore it . is no wonder , if, as Baldu.s notes , much A.d. L. '· ie JU· m'lrelicence'be in war th:inin the right of fl•r,a. -pignoration. Aad this which l hav~ faid , hath |