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Show o{War imti Ptaee tniP,rudeJrlC¢. For' m,oll commonly it happens , that either thofe moving caufes ceale, or other caufes mov~ the. ocher way more ilrongly. Firft, Th1s .w1H come to • · pafs, if we our felves fo poffefs a fruitful thing ; that it cannot bring any fruit to tl1e enemies. Whereunto properly that Law Divine hath refpe&,which will h~ve wild Treei bellowed upon works of war , but the fruitf!ll kept for food , the caufe being added , that Trees cannot1 as Men do , rile again!l us in a battell. Whiah , by fimilitude of reafon,P htlo enlarged al· t ·Philo de fo to fruitful fields t. And Jofepht'JJ upon c:rcat:ubi leRi the fame place faith, Trees, if they hada h:ec.verba ~f- voice, would cry out that they do un· ;,~:;t,~~:~ juHly bear the puni~ments of war,being qu.e & mitt~ not the caufes of war. Nor hath that of fum & mi~ts ~ 'fyth"tords (if I mifiake not) any other frutlu.prunt rife,in Jamblichp.s:Do not hurt ,nor cut up Jr•f,~ru i .All ·am mildandfruit-bear·imr Tree.AndPor· vtro '" morem ' . . b J bominum qui phJ''Y defctJbtng the manners of the ew.s, bo{lts funt, ini"':'efCtends this Law*' (cullom as It hink m mi~iti.t ftgnifi· t~rpreting it ) even to beafis ferv-ing for ,.tsonem AT•ores Countrey-work. FOJ: thefe alfo mufi be prod11nf)·ut pre~ • ·d. ,r. h h d d bu qti~ J..rciun( fpare m war,as MoJes at comman e. •ut [icert mi- r 1JA1Jlur ~irpit/14 t'DeiJmd.e (int.? ~in profunt vUloriU:u pr~tbtutq~ 'D· piam rnum qutU ~tcef!itiU exigit , imo, & voluptatem. 'l{!TJ {ol1. IJD. mi•es tributaferu"t ,[edmtliura arbQres flatu temportb~ ,,ac tAl1A 111 {me;.;, vivtrenon detur. Alter ejufdcm locus de Hum:amc~ce:~: quiwem fu•m ~tiAm l4rl,itU di(ptnfam Mo[es '£Nldt tA ubtrt!m ~c U: 6eraliter utit ur, dif'edms ii r.riorze uttntihU6 ad mur• animant~a , a.bhu vero a'deaquie e tlrranarcuntur, &c. * Porphyr: P_arci ttlti!IIJ.Nbll itx ,tn ttrra 1JI44tfl'tlil boflili~cnim'71tib~ ()}erum pc~u ,•tit ~~ ta ~c&Jdtrt 10n lictat~ · · · .- · · lM The · thirtl p4rt: Go7- But the Talmud-writings· and' the He- .. Yet with this ~ ~-w Interpreters add 'that this Law is exception, un~ to bt' Ltretched * to ev;ry thing , which }~~t:~es~~n_ m3y perilh without caufe,as, if buildings.derth; fu~~- be burnt , things to be eaten and drank ters. · be corrupted. Agreeable to this Law is,. . the prudent moderation of Timotheus the P Dde 0ffi~· 1., ; . ro o111o J ua a" .fit beman Captam, who•1 as Poly tenus ad Pont relates,f.uff.crd no hoHfe to be pultd down; t Excelient tO . wrfruzt-treeto becut .up.There is a Law this purpofcis of Plato in his fift De rtpub. 7 hat no the ~ett~r of d h fi d BehfarJUii to f!IHnd he · wajfe , no ou[e re • Much Totilas whcr.; more will this have place after complete in ~c r:idi, Ic viaory. Cicero * approves not the over- w~s t~ou~ha: a throw of Corinth thoug· 'h the Embaffa- part ~f ~·fe f ' {h c. aild ClVIl ffiCIJt dors o the Romans were amerully trea- to eretk fair ted there : and the fame lit:e.ro in another buildings j to place , iaith , H is a horrible , nefa- den1olith them rious , odious War, that is made with _was the pan of wa 11' S, roo f s, p1· 11 ars, po fl: s.. Lz.v y pra.n re t h tbhlouffhc nthoat tt o the lenity of the Romans , becaufe ha- leave ro poilevino rake~ (t!p~~ta,t h ey were not furioust fteri~ mar~s in ~ino and ruinino die mnoccnt walls of thetr foo1Jda 1:1 • o • cruelty &c.y;. and burldmg. Agamemnon m Seneca de Pro~p - faith, H'e was willing Troy Jhould he con- 5-otth. J• • qt~wJ, not levetl'd. In- · · deed tne tacred Hi !to- · l!quidem f.tttb,.,. (pace dixiffe bt" tu ryteJis ' th t fi c· _ .;trgi~~ tell~U_ liceil't) af!!igi Phryt;• . us a orne 1 .Vmcz9J· vulu1 ; 1uere & lt9!!_1f'!J fall tics were by God con• E.uam ~rguiffern. Scncc~ Troad. demned to dellruction: ~ . , and, that ag:t1 nfl: the for~er general Law the trees of the Moahites were comman- Jof. G. dM to be cut up. But, that was not done 1 B.eg. J· Ij. by hoftile hat1·ed, but in jufl deteHation of I . |
