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Show of Wa11 1-ntl PeJcce punity to anger exercil"ed th~~in, cannot be violated without con~empt off{umani£ , {u'lft Ptrfo· ty. Greatefr is that realon, fay the Law. ntt. 'D. dt re-ligiof. yers,which m~kes for Religion. Eunpides Eirip. 2·road . . hath a pious iemence , as well for Reli· · gious as facred p1aces : Who {itie·J, Scpt1lchcrs and Temples waft, .Are Foot.r, and ruinate them[elves at taft. · . . Apollonit-ts Tyan£m did thus interpret the Fable of the Giants oppugning hea· ven : They ojferd force to the Temples and feats of the Gods. Statizu accufeth .An11i· bat of iacri1ege, who fct fire on the Altars of the Gads. ~cipio having taken Carthage rew:aded hts Soldiers With oifts Thofe 0 ' ~~ "* J • . exc(pted, who had. iniur·d the Temple of ·* L~PibPI. If4n~.. l'u11. ..r".r. po 11o * • (., tt r. e-n. r . d 11 1ar , as ..uton * ~~ttb, urn not take away the Trophy rat!ed by Mi· thridates,heing iPZcred to the Gqds ofWar. \ .· Vtrrina 4· His Religion would not luffer MarcUi UUarcellus to touch the things thatvi· Clory had profan"d, faith (icero: and he addes , There are fome enemies , who in war retein the rights of Relioion and of cufloms. The fat~e elf where f~ith, the war of Brcmat-ts againll .Apoll/s Temple was pefarious. The deed of Trrrhus , who had robbed the Trea!ury of Proferpina, Livy calls a foul deed and done in con· -tempt of the Gods. Such another a& of Hami/cl · The third Pari. Jl~~nilco is call'd impiecy and lln againil: rhe Gods , by Diodort-U. The war of 'Ph'ilip the now cited Livy calls nefarious Lib. 14~ coo, as waged againfi the <;;ods both a- , , bove and below ; wickednefs alf.o , and madnefs. Flprm of the fame : Philip, be- 1u"d the right of viFlory, [pard neither* h J'k 6 Temples, Altars, nor Sepulchers*. Poly- fTPe fi 1 e. ~a . o ru tas Ill b111s touchtng the fune Hory , addcs his Jetefted by judgment thus: To fPoit thinJu::which wi/(PoJybius, . neither he profitable to us for n1ar nor wh_ofe WQrds h fi l . rr Jl' f1 ~ Su1das hach urt u to our enemtes, 1 cmp es e p~ctally r. d . . . J . ' preterve , •q IIIII' Images , and the lrk._e or.n,aments in vo,ab. Pruf. them , u undeniably the ):Vor/z.of a mind mifchicv()UI and madded with anger. And Ultqe fame place he admics ·not the fX-cufe of Talion , .or tend ring lik.c for like. L I. The utilities of Moderation. ALthough it be net properly a part of • w o~r dellgn here to inquire what is uletul, but to re!lrain the loofncfs of warriQg ~o that which is lawful by Na~ture,or amQng things .}ay.tful is better; yet will Y~rtue herfelf, vile in this evil Age , be ~~fd to excufe me,~f, feeing !he is contemned by herfelf , I add dleem . to her from the Confideration of profit. Firft tbe?,that ;Moderation in preferving things ~ch do not reta-1·d the war, deprives the ~m.y of ~ .~ighty weapo9, defperation. ltis .4rchiumus's faying'in TJmtydides, V.ink.,.tht f.Ntmin. CountrJ nq o;h.,r than a |