Senn. 16. according to the rules of equity , we omit what the rigor of the let- ter of the Law would adjudg. us thereby neither injuring our felves or others , which is ufually called probit u or houeßa4 ; by us,` common honef1y that Ihould be 'twixt man and man. And hence tome borrow it and reftrain it to that carriage the Law takes not cognifacce of, in our meeknefs and gentlenefs making it that tingle Virtue the Moralifts call manfuetodo , we meeknefs. But though it be all thefe yet 'tis alto more, thefe not reaching the latitude of the word SrsHxerx, nor the extent of the duty here injoyncd ; the word being not tared here in that aria fenfe the Philofophers ufe ir, ( as the learned Grotiud well obferves upon the place :) but for - that cqualnefs of mind and fpirir that becomes us in our converfa- 4.47-e131, c ":,,r1F1 tion,and diffufeth it felf through many, very many otheraaions ór than are proper to thefe Virtues : and though fometirncs reftrained.H t to this, or than particular kind of Moderation, yet n it's latitude (as Ws. Etym ©I. the belt Philologers tell us) denotes mediocrity, indiffcrency, equality, ¿c-ç, or the like. And in this general acception , which I may call the Teíees, Suidas.1 Moral or Theological Senfe, not reftraining ie to (though not eAclu- 7615)P &e. ding) the forinfecal and flri ter acceptation thereof, I thall through i e mtir Gods affiflance handle it.Thc rather,becaufe our Judicious and Learn- ed Perkins, hath in a peculiar little Tra &ate already fpoken fufficient- Thucyd. .ly to that particular, of the Moderation of Juftice by the Magiflrate, and private perfons, in reference to their remitting from the rigour of the Law,which every one may perufe, and I frioufly with they would . allo praâife. 2. General now follows; The exercife of Jli ?erati)n, wherein the T ieexe cile cafe propofd is included, viz. of Modera- Cafe. Wherein rnuft V e praflife Moder4tion. t an. Which necetfarily implies the external objeél or about what our Moderation muti be converfant, and appear co ail : call it the objea of the faculty or of the anion, or of Moderation, when imployed in go- verning thefe,and fo bath the fame object with, them(as is Paid before) it all comes to one. And formally includes. I. what it is that we muff Moderate ; or the faculty, or principle, of what kind foever internal and external, from which the ac con flows. 2. In what allions And 3 . H.-iv, or the to a- fuse and proportion to be Waved in fuch our ac`I ons. Which th ce are always diflinct in thetnfelv:s,though not always eafily dift,ngui i-:- able to us, and therefore often feem coincident. I ¡hall therefore joyn them together in the profecution of the Cafe. Ccc For and in what not ? 379
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