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Show of war •nd Peace efpecially , who do ntJt war of their ownaceord. M.lreover vve mull note, between full ipjury and mec:r misfortune often Intercedes iome Mean , which is as 'twere compos' d of both:io that it can neither be call' d th(! a& of one knowine and willino f u ll' nor meerly the aa 0 one ignorant orun. Moral. f· willing. firiftotle put the name l~,.~ up"~n this kind; we may oil it fome De ttrte Ot al. fault. The fa me .Ariftotle ; £ quity com· lib. 1 • . mands, that we equal not inJU-ries and fattlts, nor faults tmd misfortunes ; mi[· fortunes ar.e they, whtch could not be fore. feen , nor are admitted with a wicked mind; fault~ , which micrz.ht be forefeen , yet are .not done with a wick_;d mind; in- . jPJrieJ, which are done with a wickJd mind tTna h~e no- and purpofely t. This diltin6hofl , by rarunt veteres, rrl_ ; a. . . h . r f h E & i ·l illo Ho· 1 nemsJ.tus m t e prane o t e mperor merl verfu de Valens, is applyed to our argument, thus: Achi!Je, llia- Tou have made a dtjferencc 't1wixt an in· ~os po~re~o ; jury , a fault, and a misfortune. A It hou~h oun '"P., ~~ you neither ftudv Plato,nor rrad AriHot'!e, • , ,.,, lf1' I « ,;.0,. p-, '/$·,· yet you put their doilrin into praEtice. For, c t r',m!.Pb:Io,you have not thought them worthy of e· autem m I~g. qual punifhwtent , who from the beginning t fpec. e6xpl!ca- tJerfwadedthe War,andwhoafterwardwere lOUC lC alt ; I J ' 7Ji,idi•tum carried with the ftream , and who at /aft tfjl facinfl4, ub) 'IIO?Ucctf!it l~"f." anitpi dcJiberatio. Thuc' didcs lib. 4• qedibit.u~ A· pud DeNm qt1oq; pll'tatllm t{[e veniam hiJ tJNi ~elio ttUt qNa fimili nt· etfJiU.tl tra£ti ,,liquid aiwittuvt. Cz--ites apud Livium 1. 7• Ntappe/ larent e~nfilium , qutt vu- ac nccejfittt.s app'tflar,da t/J'tt. Ariftides feuar. 2., Dijficilia mnpora tX&Mjatwnem 11tiquam dane ~e[ci['m· tJblld. 'I'he t'ird Pari. ·~s; (ubmitted .to him that now (eemed tfJ httv~ the higheft power. But , the firft you con• 4mmea, the ne~t you chaftifed, the !aft l''* pitJed *. So, in Jofephus, ( ltb. 5. belli J11a.) Titu$ inflicts rt ~d Punifhment up~. Tdtm The.; on the Leader in the Cnme, Yerbal upcn mifiiu' ali'bi the following multitude. Meer m·:sfor- :adolefcentclll tunes, neither deferve puwfhmem, nor lm !Jer ~rorem obh.g e to h fi . f L d vulc d1fcere, .t e re Hutlon o t1 e a ~age , quid diftet unjuft acltons , to both ; A mean tault, ,...,J'X."fi.!JI• ~ as it is liable co refiitution , {o it often de- tif(SIJ~n~ ~ fervcs not punifhment, efpccially capi- """"'~· eft tal. What Themifttm notes, that the Au ~ quomdodore~ thors o f war are to be d.1 f i'm gm fh t • f rom g~feimiu s mcc·lecure ri · the Followers , is frequently Exernp ified hoc corrigere: ' inHifl:ories. Herodotus* relates, how the pofircmum • Grecians took revenoe of thole who were vc~o folum 'h o ' ult1orre profc:· Authors to the 71 ebans of a defeCtion to qui. the t7Vledes. So were the Princes of Ar- SuciJ wtt.s TraM" beheaded , as Livy * tells us ; And in jan, tmi»ent .sthe fame Author .. Val. L~tvinus Agri- mong th.e Ro - '- L' . ' man Prmce$,nol 1~11tH11J ottHf!. ta"-en, beat wt1h rods and t~aCI!ylearned b~headed thofe that were (kief in the bu- in words, btu . ftne[s; the re.ft, with the Jpod, he fold. ont that ~new The eAtheniam, in Thucydtdes *, repen· w_h11! 10 1o,~1zd tc d of t he ·tr de cree aga.m 1n1 t he Mt~.y le- dM1d. A" ~X· t1f1 p1~h,1l ~ ntAns, to put to the [word rh~ whole Cit], (ingular Prmct, aa not the e_Authors of the defection on- Jhewmg, wifeIf. And Diodorus faith , 'Demetrius ha- d8m' not rn. v·m g ta ke n Th ev1. es, put to· de at h on l y ten nwioo;m d s, abru dt ionp l-tel'flperance ~rnd Fft~i~Jofm•ftlfvs. f:lerod. MacrimM did 11or knnw the Laws (o ex A• 17, Ill bt tXtcuted them faithfully. Xi phil. 0 God I Give ru but (ucl1 Pmam ~our rimes I * Vide Gai I. J. 1. de pace pu : n. ' 8. * Herod. CaJ. ~ LiV, Jib,4• * Liv. lib. 1.6. ~ Thllcyd.lib. 3· of |
