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Show oJWar AnJ Peac~ EpilHe for the . Children .of LJCHrgus, praitech Philip -of Macedon, that he had not made all that had'· been among his . J;nemies, to be fervants t· For, faith he, tH·s fonA .. he duJ not thinl(,_it meet to dc1tf, with aU lexander . 1. . d 1 ,.(' d · Thebes b;ing a{tk..; ,v1}t JH ~t'u o1 every anc ace or mg tg taken, excmp., hw merit. But firfl VIle mufl note_, the nght t~d f10~11 fervi- yv.htc~h iprings a-s 'twere fl'Otn iuretyfliip v .tude,, boch for Jl. City is not.fo hroe as that, which the Pnefts,aad . ' f l 0 · 1~ h h tbofe who had (pqqgs from a ;lU t, a gam 1 t em w o not a!fenred to fre - m~~e fen;ant~ hy way of punifhmem. the Decr~es Whence a SpartAn faid , He WM a Cap· made af!;a,nft tive not a Ser'Vant *. For if we look him. Plutarch. . h 1• . h · h' • I . h ... Philo fa 1rh ng t y mto t e matter . t IS genera ng t Fatll'•s for 'over Captives in a jufl war, is like to ~:heir children, that r!ght,which Maflers have overthem, :and ch~ldren who, being compeld by p6verty , have :h~r:~~~t:i: fE?l~ th<anfe~ ves i_m0 t~rvi tude : exce~t,that ten p}id''~r'an- th~1J calamity, 1s the mort to be pltyed , fofut; when r who cpme not into that coqdition by any thefwere 'Ci- · {ped al fa6t of their own, but by the.fatJlt \ltr! r'b'ntkenba- of Governo_ur~: T:u a moft r<~~d thint ,Caith way y"to ~ J' -·,er~ or made Ifocrate:s, to be , made 4 prifonur of r~ar, prifo;tet"s of .:fh,s· fenitude then,is a perpe ~ual obli~V war : whom tiQJl· fO work for main.tenance l1kew1fe uuly,th~Laws .perp¢tu~ l. Chr,firpltfl.s his definition isve· tr~na~~;~iun ry -fit for this kind ·of G:rylntS: * vi {tr· ~:here Laws .va11t is a perpetual mercenary. And h1m, made On wno I ha~·h fold hitn[elf being COmpeld by cart~, ~rite ~~ :pov¢rLy 1 the JJe.hrew .La~ pl:l_inly com· f 1 ree. r:;-:nh• . H ·par.ts-to .a Jpercenary: and m J]1s redemp· en-:~. 1:t1t •n · . . k r. fi I' Theodettei; ti0n, it w1ll.have h1s wor 10 pro t 1un, Who dare xhe call me a fervant , ~ha~ .-m 011 . b~tb fides d_efqendc:~ f.rol)l_ . Gods? 11Sm, de •'tnef--i· '' ~~. 15 '.The 11Jir-tl part. as fmits received of a field fold lhould pro-fitrhe old poifeffor. Much diffFrence it her· fflfe th~re is "twixt what is done impune• ly againfl a iervan c by the Law of Na-tions, and what natural reafon fuffers to be done. That of Philemon tendetb t~ this. · He that is horn a man, although Heferve,uftil a man, 1 trow. • Seneca: lhey ari [erva11ts, JM M1n: !trs. £_pjjl, 41· thrJ ~e ferval/ts,yeA 'Our (ompauions:they 11ft (ervants,yeA our friends : they~~.re fer- 'VAnts,yea ~JurfeJtow-fervants. Whicbal-fo. you may read in Macrohius, agreeing jn.f-enfe with that ofS. Paul; Mafters, Colo1f. 4.1. ti~e unto your ftr'rJantJ thatwhich is juft· ~nd equal, k,.nowing that ye al[o have 4 M•ffer in Hca-vm.And in andther.place, bt would have Mailers forbear lthreat- 1ting , upon c~e fame argument, ~no-wing Epb. '· ,. tiMt their Mafter alfo is in heaVIn , who regardeth not fuch differences of L 'b qualities • . In the Conflitutions afcribed 1 • 1• c. 14· toCl•mens 'RJlmanus we read, Thou (halt* Sic & in ep~ flit be imperious over thy mdn-{~·wznt or Ba~nabz ~I_l: . r1rt mAid-fetvant in !Jittlrnefs of mind*. Nl)/l tJcerbe Jlfl• Ck,ens Alexandrinus t would haJie us !~.a~l.t ftr 1 v(l _aut • .......~1. te Ute 11J ufe our fervants as our other felves; feemg chn(Jr~m Jpe-tbty are men as well as we; following the rantib11s , nt ttl fentence' of the Re/lrew ·wife-man , Iji~fo ofte-11d(U""" thou haft a fervant , NJe him M a h'flot her, tJmtretl'. c~m-· t. h - r. h 'h r. '' Th . h m!lntm twu!l" J" e u 1ue a o1Jt tU t 1 Jev_· e ng t,ip(it d11mm11111• chcrcforc which is called of life and death t Pa:lil. ulc. · ' over |