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So is it to be judged of those that will oppress by violence other: that ether offend not / ether be ready to offer there causes to the vicars of God / the judges off the earth if they find there own death / it is to be judged that it is none other thing / then the just judgment of god that the one should defend his lief / and the other perish. A great isle is it / that those isle men that dare not bring there cause to be judged before the lawful Magistrate are permitted so licentiously / to trouble the peaceable people / of a realm with out punishment. Which is against God's laws / and mans laws / and the occasion of great murder / which provoketh the ire of God against the Magistrates for the sufferance of so great / and isle. I know / how men that govern after Aristotle's politics / will excuse this isle. They will say that laws must be made according to the nature of the people / to whom they are prescribed. But God's laws saith / man must obey the law / and not the law man. if they be christians it shall not be a servitude / to live after the laws of Christ / who should govern chiefly both the superior and the inferior. And so saith also Aristot. libr. 5. Polit. cap. 9. ⟨p. CLIII⟩Non est seruitus uivere ad formam reipub. sed salus. I Englished this the second verse before: it should not be difficile to remove this isle: if every man that shall see the peace broken in a cite / had authority to sunder the persons / and bind the peace breakers to appease / by there words / and he that brake his faith / and promise to him that required it / to lose his head in the name of a pain. as it is used in some commune wealths. Murder is committed like wise by hand / by such as are every mans men for money. As these run agates / and lance knights are / that sell both body and soul to such as will hire them. They care not whether the cause be wrong or right. They should nether receive / by the law of God nether any Christian man give them any thing except the cause be god. if it be: every man is bound to defend it. If not: no man. This cannot be known of all men: but if the cause be nought / God excuseth no man / but esteemeth him a murderer of his own lief / and the Magistrate that hireth him the occasion thereof.

So is it to be iudgyd of those that will oppresse by vyolēce other: that ether offend not / ether be redye to offre there causes to the vycars of God / the iudges off the erthe if they fynd there awne deathe / it is to be iudgyd that it is none other thyng / then the iust iudgment of god that the one shuld defend his liefe / and the other perishe. A great ile is it / that those ile men that dar not bryng there cause to be iudgyd before the lawfull Magistrat ar permittyd so licensiouslie / to troble the peaceable people / of a realme with out punyshement. Whiche is against Godes lawes / and mannes lawes / and thoccation of great murder / whiche prouokythe the jre of God against the Magistrates for the sufferaunce of so great / and ile. I know / how men that gouern after Aristotelles politikes / will excuse this ile. They will say that lawes must be made according to the nature of the people / to whom they ar prescribid. But Godes lawes saythe / man must obey the law / and not the law man. if they be christians it shall not be a seruitude / to liue after the lawes of Christ / who shuld gouern cheffelie boothe the superiour and the inferiour. And so saythe also Aristot. libr. 5. Polit. cap. 9.