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Show Of W4r ~nd Pt4ct' Dcur.1.•H• not allege here , that the Hchrew1 t~oA. 16h· A the women and children of Hefhhon lc:kiste ts e mf a- t ha t t he 1r ame I·S comman d ed to be whom J~f~- upon. the Canaanites , and upon them phus in the life whoie caufe was connexed t with the Ca. ofSau1,1.6'.8. naanites; Thefe are the works of G d Heproceeded h ,- . h . 0 1 to the (laugh- w o.e ng t over men 1s grea rer than that ter of women 0f men over beafts, as we have laid other ~n.d c~ildren, where. That comes neerer to fhew the t~ : nkmg_ he common cullom of Nations, that in the dJd n 1 orhmdg Pfalrn he is called bleffed who lhall dalt crue or 11 - lfl verfe to hu- the Infants of Babylon aoainfi the m:an n:ature; !tones*. The Thracians of old~ as Thuc1• firfr ,, becaufc dides relates, havino taken MicaleJ!m rh.ey wer~ e~e- put the women aHo0 and children to ch: mtes agamn f d . whom ir was wor · Arrran tells the fame of the Ma· done, &c. cedonians, when they had taken Thehe5, Pfal. 137. The Romans t did the like at llurgis a ,. . town of Spain as PaulleJ whereto ts that of Homer . A . 1• . h G' --illi{~tq;corpo:aumt ppran att · e~. In[tmrum,{ttv;tJ d11m concrttit tmmiaMavOr$. mamcm Cefar IS Out of the . . fa1d by Tacitus to fame Homer . have la1d wall With fword and fire the Scverus u{(·d Vi lngcs of the Marji, a people in Ger• th~fe wo r d~ ~- many , and it is added , Neither [ex, nor g~rnfr tNh·: Bn_.- age mov• d compaffion. Titm propofed al· tams. cc q~t 1. h · d h'ld latct abditeu in- o t e. women an c 1 ren of the Jews tYaVi(ctram~t- for a ipeC:b.c1e,to be torn by wild-bealls. t;·uad?uc,fitgict And yet thefe two are fuppofed to have tersud:b~ fat a. been of no cruel dif pofition. So cufioma· crp oalfo 3t h } 1 he caking of ry ':''~S t a. t crue cy bee om. Th~ lefs ~nar~ Numan1 ia;Ju- vel tlS to hear of old men flam, as oJ lians foldicrs ngainl.l_the wome~ left at Dacir. Zozim. ~· The fame Julian 2c the takmg of Mawz.:rmaltha, withutlt difference offexor age {urioufi) dLI.lro}'Cd all •. Ammian.l. • 4· AnnaJ.I.I. Priam ,41 lriAm by Pyrrhus. Nor were Captives t t Elizzus in exempted from this licence. Pyrrhus in Jofeph~s faid Smectt. according to the cu(lom then re- 1kt.1w1 as JU.ft to · 'd 1\T L r. . h , 1 C3puves, cetV : .JvO aw Jpares a capttve , or in- by the L\lw of brs his punrJI:ment t. So the {orcyr4ans War. '!h7reflew the capttves out of Epidamnum,..; fo~e Vt~gal and five thoufand captives were fiain by br~ngfis 10 a1_ca" 'b i* .. C . f , pttve upp JCZ". JJ11nt a .. n . enturton . o. ~ .t,[ar s thus ting per patrios a~dretfcs hJmiclf to Sctpto m 1-lirtius m.snes,ptr {pt~ ot the eAfrican war, I give you thank.J fur~e~tu_ Ir~l,. thAt JOU promife me life , beimryour /'a- W111thlfk~nd.I.z. · 1. h f 6 L ' te so 1ennty ptsvt t7J t e Law o War. Nor at any time choufand Sla-is txcluded the power of killino fuch as voniam taken are taken in War, as to the La~ of na- and flain by tions; though by the Lawes of Cities it is tOTtto. d 1 rc f:ln·a m• e d , 1·1 1 1r 0me pl a ces more , in 1r ome Cirrio Va ir.g iln:A t lefs. M?reover, there are frequent exam- btlli {alum cap• ple~ of lupplia~ts alfo fiain, as by Achil- tivmn leg_e nt~ · les m Homer ,in Virgil of MafTo and Tur- cM.ffts. Horae: · h' h · r ~ Vndere Cll11J wus.~ 1c we fee are 10 relat~d,that they pDJfis captiv~em, are .w1thall defended by that nght of war ~&cidereno/i.Powh~ ch we have faid.Fort,S. Auguftin alfo nit licerc. Et pratfing theGotths,who had fparedfuppli- Donatus, fer: ants and fuch as fled to fanel-uaries faith ;os dJ_a~ qu1 wh h .1 ' ' 1ervatt eueo[, at ~""been lawful to b.1 done by the Law quum m oC'idi •/War, th~y judged ttnlawf.-tl(or them to Oforteret 1~re Jo.Nor are they always recei'v• d that yield bcll1 : ub~ 1llud themfclves; as, in the battel at Gra- opmer_et,amnicll m,th e G.r ee k. rth a tte· rv 'd t he Perjian;licperroept,upeo iipturora . ~~ tlfpenfes m TacitHs, as yet free , beg· viderur. A- , li'tng.M;rcy: but the V.flors would not :et,b.afl."Z.~fi.x ht4r,fa1th he ; and fo th~y fell by the Law * Thucyd.~lb.~. o{Wa N h • h l f Ap.Anmb. ~ r. o~e ere agam,t e aw o War. t· s •. 'De Ci11i-alfo, ygu may read , they that yielded tate ou. a. _. ~nd ~71nal. 11. |