Of 'loving our E11emie1-. 145 fi·om our charity. We tnay indeed lawfully oppofe thdr violent invaGon, and defend our rights with- the [word, under the ban– ner ofthe publick Inagifhate, to /w.hom fuch a.nthority is co1nn1itted: but all this 1nay be done with as little 1nalice and hatred as J a judge 1nay punifh a tnalefac.tor; the General may be as void of paffion as the Lord Chief juflice; and the foldier, as the exc-:– cutioner. ·Bi.lt charity will oblige a prince never to hav-e rqiourfe to the fword, tiU all other re1nedies fail; to blunt the edge of war, by fparing., as n1uch as n1ay be, the fh.edding of innocent blood, with aU other barbarities that ufe to acco1npany it: and ~to accept of any reafonable capitulation. We co1ne next to the enem-ies of ot~. r religion. And indeed there are .many \~10 · are fo far fron1 thinking them to pc a– n1Gng the nun1her of thofe '"hon1 they are obliged to love, that they look upon it as a part of their duty to hate and n1a... lign them. Tbeir ,zeal is con.rinually vent- _ing itfelf in fierce invectives againft And– chrift, and every thing they are pleafcd to <:all Antichriftian: An·d they are ready to {lpply all the prophecies ~nd imprecations ,of the Old.Tefian1ent, in their very pray– ers, againfr thofe that differ fron1 then1. N And
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