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Show 638 Of War -and Peace t Such Kings So , among the Jews , ~he Scepter rernai .. were of old in ned in the Sanedrin , allo after the confif. )h,~lEy' u~der fcation of Arch~laus. Evagora& Kino of t c mpm: 0 lr ) . • . en . d r 'do other KI·ngs. ~.... ypr~s ~ as us. m to orus , 1a1 He Serv. ad 10· woula give cbedtence to the Perjian) IDUt u£n.So among as a Kino to a King. And Alexander (e. the Tur~s. veral ti~es offerd to <lJarius t beino l.eund.z~b-. 1 S. h' t· · h h tt. 111 overcome, t 1s cone mon; t at e mou.d rule over others , and be !ub ject unto .Alexander. We have fpoken of mixed J: Parr. 1., Empire elfwhere *· To fome, one part of the Kingdom hath been left, as a part of their Lands to the old Pvffdfors. A· gain , when all Empire is taken frorJ! the Conquerd , there may be lcfc them, about private affairs , and publick to of *Philo in his lefs moment, their own Laws .. and CI1· Ernba0y to fioms , and their own M:tgiHrats. So, in Caiu~, fAith, r. l\uguftm had Bithynia , a procomular Province, the as much care· City Apamtta had the privilege to adto keep the minitl:er the Commonwealth their own L.tW$ proper way t , as Pliny tells us in his Epiflles; ~?o~v'e~~ t~a~ and in other places the Bithyniaru had Roman. their own M:1giH:rats, thelr own Senate, t Vid. tp. 9J· And ro in Pontru, the Amtfen's City u(ed Pli"'.. & feq. their own Laws , by the favour of Lu· ;;:.l:i~=d~~~ic. cul!us. The Golths atio left to, the R~epifi. & 5. u. ~am the ~oman Laws. ~ part of thts mduloence t5, not to depn~e the Conquerd', againH their perCwafio~ , of the ule of thetr old Rcligwn *. \~htch as v~ .. 1t Meliu! t{t d r h ibi-4ttqtiem lJ gratefuf to the Conquer , JO to t e ,uti DwfJJ.,. . _ , IJU 1/n ntllft~m. S~"erus. So the Gotths in Pro~P· Gott, s. f2y, they fvrced none to their ReligiQn, • . ~ · · · - Conqueror The third Part. Conqu~ror i.t is no~ hurtful , as -.Agripp4 . m .hts <?ratwn to Cdius, rda:ed Phtlo 10 h1s En1bajfj. And lh Jofc~ , both Jofcphus lumfelf, and 'Jtuis ·.a .d'' ,.,· tbe Emperor object to t~1c rc.bd1s of Je-r~ falem , that 9Y the mc:fuiaenc~ of the Rli't»ans, they had fo mucl/'pnvdege in t.ltir own Religioh, as to keep out A-liens from the Temple, even at the peril df their lives. But , if the Conquer•d Mve a fa! fe Religion , it. will belong tG t~ Conqberors c~re , that the True be not opprefl,: whiCh was the cafe 'Of Con- ' when he had broken . th'e party Licinius, and afrer him of fhe French and ocher K1I1gs·. The Iafi Caution is that even in the fulldt and ( as 'twere) ~He Empire , the Conquered be us• d wrch Clemency,. and fo that their !me-rea be taken· in with the lntereft of the . Conquerour. Cjrus bade the oVercom ' · ' Affjrians be of geod cheer : :{h_ey fhould. ff.~h, t1r11J ~ tn as good cafe as they had been, their ., Ii~ only changed; They fhoul'd .have tbctr Houfes , L1nds , Wives ahd Clli1.! drm, a~ i': times palt : and if any one fuould InJUre them , He and His would them. In Sa!luft we read ; The peo- Rome, conceived it /Jetter to get , than fervants; at.~d they thought to ru·~e o.ver r:'il!ing ~Jen,than for- !he Brttam.r 1 m the times of Taci- Pie. 'll1,ril~ d1d cheerfully come to che mufiers · pay tribute, and perform offices in~ joind |