Com:6 In what ,cafes' it is lawful to fbod blond. Chap. ;.. .41.c But here it muff not be every light andfmall injury for which War may be undertaken, but great and notable, or a continued courfe of injuries. And even when there it pill caufe,yet until neceffity inforces, Warmuff be avoided : for as Saint Augufiine, Bellum Aug. de civ. gerere malls videtur foelicitatis, bonis vero neceflitatis ; evil men count it a happi- Dei t. 19, c. i. -otefr toga to war, butgood men avoid it únlefi neceffity enforce them. Seneca could fay, Non effe homini hommeprodige utendum , one manought not to be prodigal of ano- ther. Though David fought the Lords batted,yetGodwould not let bimbuildhis Temple, becaufe he had shed much bloud. The Heathen: Greeks thoughtfame expiation weep faryevenfor them thatbad fiord blond upon a julf cattle. And in the Greek Church, that ancient Canon was long obferved, tdbicb farforce time reffratned them from the Eucharift, that bad born Arms even. in thejuffeff War. 3. It mutt be ad finem jufhúm. There mutt be a juta end propofed before a War be undertaken. There mofe not be.capiditat nprendi, a defire to defiroy, or libido domi- nandi, a tuft to reign over others. But the main end mutt be the glory ofGod , and the next, ut inpace fine injuriavivatur ; War mutt be taken in hand that we may live ace in peace without receivinginjury. 4. And lately,. It mull be modo debito, in a right manner ; according tò that Rule givenby God to his people : When thou goeff out towar with thine Hoff againft thine Deut. 23. D. enemies, keep thee from all wickednefs. How can men exped good fuccefs in fighting against men, when by their fins they war againft God. Abigail raid ofDavid, that be fought the battels oftheLord, and evil bad not beenfound inhim.all his days. Where t Sam. a5.2B. this is wanting, it may be Paid to fuch, as David laid of joab to Solomon , when he gave a charge concerning him, that the blond of war was upon his girdle, and in hie r kings z 5. Jhoes. And thus we fee what is required to make a War jute and lawful, and where it is thus qualified, as in the Princeauthorizing it, it is anad ofpublick jufiice ; fo in the Souldiers, it is an aá ofChriftian fortitude, when men fight for their Reli- gion, their King, and their Countrey ; and as they laid, propter populum nottrum, err a Sam. ro, r a. urbes Dei noffri ; forour People, and theCities of God. There are other Cafes, wherein a manmay kill,_and yet not finagainft this Com- mandment. . r. The fitft is, when a man is fuddenly,affaulted, either upon the High-way, or elfewhere, where hecannot make ufe of the power ofthe Magittratc. in this cafe when thenecellity is extream, he may cum moderamine inculpate tutele, for laving his own life, killhim that would take it away ; that is, when he cannot Otherwife preferve his own life. In this cafe neceffitas is not only exlex, without the Law , but tegem dicit tegi, prefcribes a Laweven to the Law itfelf. But neceffity mutt he taken as it ought, that is, not only pro imminenti neceytate, a neceffity near, but pro ter- mina ind:viflbili when at the Infiant a man muff defend himfelf, or his life is loft; in this cafeevery man is a Magistrate. This may be confirmed out of the Law , a zSen. C2.7: minoread majus. The Law faith, 'Ifa Thiefbe found breaking up an horde bynight; and he be (mitten that hedie, there (hall be no blond -flied for him. Then if.I may kill a man forbreaking into my houfe to flea' nay goods, andnot be withincompafs ofmurther, much more ifhe would take awaymy life. And this was the caufe (as Saint Augisffine faith) thatgladius Petri., Saint Peter's fword muff be worn,, in ter- wens, to terrificmen from offering violence, and to preferve one fromdanger. Arid fe ing the Law allows a man to carry his fword about him for hisown defence, it is no for nothing,but implies that he may ufe it in fome cafes,otherwife it were in vain to ear it. ut when the terminus isdiviftbilis, that theneceffity is not without a latitude; nor the danger prefent, then we are to follow Saint. Pawls example, who when Mir 23; 17. . fore had bound themfelves by an Oath to kill him, but the neceffity was not prefent, but there was time to make ufeof the Civil Power ; therefore in this cafe, Paul doth.not run upon them; and leek to kill them,prefently, but ended it to be re. ealed.toLyfiar the chief Captain; and fo we,muft reveal it to theMagi(frate; but the danger being prefent, a.man is by the Laws of God and man allowed to defend his own life, againtl the unjull invafton ofanother, though thereby he kill another ; for this.is not Murther, but'ineulpata tutela ,. a lawful defence, which is , when there is no purpofe of (bedding blood, but only to preferve a mans own life; in order to.which ;if bloud be.fhed, this is only peraccidens, and not intended ; fol F f 2 every
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