MyicalPerf n with the Church. 2 7 9 Tongue, and was formed of Reus. So ,Quintilian informs us in his Difcourfe of the ufe of obfolete and new words. lib. 8. cap. 3. *í e vetera rune lint, fuerunt aim nova ; quedam in ufu perquam recentia. Meffalla prima Reatunz, munerariem .Augu.1lw dixerunt 5 To which he adds Piratica, Muflca, and Tome others then newly come into ufe. But Reatw at its firft Invention was of no fuch fignification as it is now ap- plied unto. I mention it only to thew, that we have no reafon to be obliged unto mens,Arbitrary ufe of words. Some Lawyers firft ufed it, pro crimine, a fault, expofing unto Pu-- nithment. But the Original Invention of it continued by Iong ufe, was to exprefs the outward frate and condition of him who was Rear, after he was firft charged in a caufe cri- minal before he was acquitted or condemned. Thofe among the Romans who were made Rei by any publick Accufition,, did betake themfelves unto a poor fqualid Habit , a forrowful countenance, fuffering their Hair and Beards to go undreffed ; Hereby on . Cuftome and Ufage , the people who were to judge on their , caufe, were enclined to compaffion. And Ñpilo furthered his fentence of Banithment, becaufe he would not fübmit to this cuftom which bad fuch an appearance of Pti(+llaninrity and bafenefs of Spirit. This ftate of farrow and trouble fo expreffed, theycalled Reatas and nothing elfe. It came afterwards to denote their ftate who were committed unto cuftody in order unto their Trial, when the Govern -. - ment ceafèd to be popular, wherein alone the other Artifice was of ufe. And if this word be of any ufe in our prefent. Argument, it is to exprefs the Rate of men after Conviction of fin, before. their Juftiñcation: That is their Reatas, the con- dition wherein the proudeft of them cannot avoid to exprefs, their inward forrow and anxiety of mind, by fume outward evidences of them. Beyond this we are not obliged by the ufe of this word, but mutt confider the thing it fell which- now we intend:toexprefs thereby,. fszl>
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