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Show X XXV. O{'fpfUing thing1 [4ct"td •d religious. · · N. Or doth the meu Law of Nationi . ( •the confid~ration of other d~k's la1d alide , ofwh1ch we llull fpeak bt~ . . lo~ ) c:xcept facr(d thiDg.s , i. e. Such 'as '1' • are dedicated to God , or to the Gods ~.h. ! ~~u,.1 'an m When rJace s are M~m b11 the t?Jt mie s a'; . 1s Li»po oge· r. II. f. d * ~ . / , u tic~: Wars cea_Je tfl oe ;ecre , bll!h CJ'omponiH-s the an~ yiaoric•, Lawyer t, The facred thingJ of the $Jr4. ~~f.t. pa~kr~con• ~uftans, Viftor1 made proCa!Jt f.'lith Cic.e. n,_. 10t.a 1ng * Th r. .1'. '. · -anct·ovcr- ro.. • . e reat~n whereof ts thts, becaule thro~: ng Ci- · ~he ~b1.n.gs whtch are call<!d facred, are ties. Which not mdeed exempted from human ufcs wot~ is_ not but are publick * · and they are mmed .d o.n e Wift hohu t rt.a cre d f·r om t he en'd to wh1.c h chey are InJury o r e . d r. . Gods. The appomte · Angn ofthts which I fay, is, "!ails of Ci- that when any people yield themiHv.es to uesi'and Tern· another people or King , then alfo they G plesd of thelc yidd thofe things which are call'd divino o sparr a e · 'b · ' in die [1me a~ appears y the formul~, which we have ruine: the Ci- ~lted afore~ out of Livy : and there· tizam and tore Ulpian faith _publick Riahc con· Prfliefis hcquadl- fiHeth alfo in fa;red. thinos tv PaHfa· ly 1Ug cere : . b • ~· nor is the rapine of ~acrcd r!ches and. profane unl~ke. So many ~herefore are .the _f:~enleges of the R ·m:ians, :as their trophies; So many arc the•r tnu~~hs over ~ods, as Nations, &c. t Polllpf1fl. ~-cum loc11. v. de rclzg,ttJ{is. * CIC. Verriua 4· * Mujil. Patat~inus ~~ de(t•fore paclA c. f. p~ "·Nicol. BDtri~ Decif. 69. nNm. 1, Baffilil 111 mm. dt fortuompetente num.1or. Cothm11n. emf. xoo. JJ*"'· J•• ... Part. I.~. 41. pag. 88.Cui convenit illud in Ampt.irruonc Pla11· ti_: ~rbem,agrum,artU,focos,{eq; uti dederent. Dcinde: Dtdtlltq;(t, ~w~n.s hulf'Jan4q; omnia. t In ~e ~ecefficy of times facrcd things were converted to ufes of war , by l'ericles, under promif,of ~a· kJPg 'the thirtl htl ~ t~t . Wt~rllicution.Auf>uftus borrowed mo-'ey OU.t of c~ Yralilry of TrDlpl'a. App~an. Civil. S. Her~clius. i~ extreme need turned' the ChurcJt·plate ime coyn': but af~rward rcftorcd the p;rce., •• Thcopbancs rc~aes. Sec the 0 ration ot La11rcnr. in Bcmb.l. 6. ~st faith ~ It was a cuflom commQn to t P•ufa•.j.rurr Grllt} and Barharians,that facrcd thil)gs tlieti. · thould be in their power , that had taken Cities. And the fame Author notes , that the confecrated Gifts were wont to be taken by the Conquerours : and Cicer11 calls it the Law of WAr. So, Livy:faith , the ornament-s ef the Temples which M~ce/!Hs brought from Syracufe to j.om1 ~~re g~tten b! th.e Law of War. And (~t• .· t6 1n hts Ora w:m m Sa/u ft , relatioo what ·' · things. are wont to happen to th~cgnque- _ . ted l puts among them the [poiling of · Temple~ ·: NotwithHanding, this is true, • P'i~~ crD••· _ lfany·dtvme power be believ'd to be-in a"' rumiJb.r1.Pr1· ~.lmage, to violate that, is high impic- "P· P'lrfic. "' ty1n the~,_that agree in fuch per[wafton; andlnt.hts fenfe of impiety,or oF the Law df Nauons broken, are they· fometimes a~ufed,who have 'comtnitted fuch chinos· ' r.. • t> ' ~~~.on rupr?h~ion of fu.ch perfwafton. T1s otherw1k, tf the enemies are of ano-ther ~pinion ; as, the Jews, were not only RCf~t~ed, but commanded to abo1ifh the ldo\g- of the Nations : for , that they are De forbidden to take them to themfelves is ut.7. Sl· upon this grolind,that theHe!Jrew's mi~ht · the more detefl the fuperfiitions of ~he ~eathens.,~cing~dmonHhtof their impu-ntyby the mterdu.~ of a touch· not as if. ' ' the |
