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Show of. W41r 4n4 Pi ace On pvrpot~ no rna'? ~an '. ~e fiain ·juilly, unlefs either for Jufl ·.pumlhmem, or as wi}\10Ut ;i~ y.Je ~:anuQt. defend our life and our ooods ; thouzh thls , to kill a man for ·perifi1ing things , however it be not con- " '• trary. to' JllHicc Hri&ly fo called , d~par-l 1 I teth frotnJhr Law of Chari ry. That pu· nifhmcnt may be juH, ic_ is necdfary that he who is i1ain have Gftended; and that iQ-I:Jl\IS:P,as may be avenged with the pu· nifhn ent of ul."ath in the fcntence of an ; equall Judge. Whereof we ihall fay the _1 , ·: t , lefs ll<'lW , becaufe we have !:tid fo llltlch . afqre . about \)Unifbmmt~. And afore, when yve fp<~ke of it1 ppltanr~ (for tHere iJ.rrejlJWJ. '!I -~·!UlfJ.!il-• ;r.( ) arf.) 'uppi!ancs as well in War as in Peace) we d1!ljngui£hed 'twixt misfort~1!1e and ~ jury. GJl·ppus in that place of 1Jro· qorto enquires, in which ramk the .AWtnians ought to be placed, whether of · , ~he unforrunate , or of the unjuft; and · .! ·: .l. ,. fajth, They cannot be accounted unfor· tunate, who of their own accord,' pruvo· ked by no in jury, had 'begun a war up· pon the SrracPfians ~whence he infers, Bein~they had of themfelves undertaken the war, they mt!tl alfo be ccntent to bear tht evils the1eof. A'n example of the un· . fortunate are They,, who are with the ; • rnemies , without an hofiil~ mind; fuch , ' ;YS the u1thenians were in the times of !cU. 'tat· I·. ~) .Jvfithridates-, of whom Velleil!s thus j If \ ' ' · ' ·•'~ti4y ·pne impsde' to the A,th.mians thit time of rebel/ion) 'rflhereiN ,(1'1t~(ns '(94J 6e; - · · · fege~t fltgeJ !Jy Sulla, he is too ignorant of truth -nd~ntiquity. For, So fur·e rvas the .Athenians fidelity toward the Romans, that AIWIIJS and in all thhtgs , whar.ever was Jdne flnccrely , the Romans {atd was done ... fide Attica, with Altick faith. But , rtt that time the Athenif{ns were in a mifertlilt condition , opprcft by the force of Mi. thridates : They were paj[eft b7 their ene• mies, andbejieged by their friend; : They had !heir minds without the walls , and thtir bodies within, yielding to nccejfity. Which lafl: claufe fecms taken out of Li-vy, in whom Indibilis the Spanyard faith, L{b. ,.~. his body only was with the Carthagi-t~ ittnf , his Soul with the Romans. f' e1•ily, a& Cicero fpcakcth; alL men having thei! Pro ~intjo. Uft in anothers hanl, more often think, whttt he can do, in whufe powfi'i' thty are, thAn what he ought to do. The fame for Ligarius; The· third time zs, whm afTe~~ the comin,rs of Varus. he flayd in Aj11ca: JPbith, if it be a crime , i; a crime of ne\ . . r .. . ~ cl{fit.y, not of will. And Julian confidered · this in the caufe of t:he Aquileiam , as .b .A,j,mianu,s tc!hfies , whG· ~ when he had L1 • l.I, related the punifhment of a few, add€th, The rejidue , all , went off.free; who1n ne-etffit! , not their rv_ill , had engaged in the* . '""'Ylt *. The old Commentator upon H~ltcuq~f~. the place of Thucydides about the Cr;rcy- J.x. ~:'' ~.,_,- , • 1 (Mit a,.iw n rA.cns.Capnvcs fold; He {hews the cle- ,tdnov. '"~1 worthy of Grecian Natttres :for ti.c hard t,ok..ill Captives after ftgbt, (ervants efpoc:ially, |
