Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

1. Of the Matter of Contentions; and they are either of a Civil, or of a Spiritual Nature. 1. Of a Civil Nature, which concern Men in their Lives, Liberties, Names, or Estates: And these are either Private ⟨image 27⟩or Public. 1. Private Contentions, which are about Meum and Tuum; and these are troublesome to those which are in the right, and damnable to those that are in the wrong, and oftentimes ruinous unto both; and therefore are by all good means to be prevented, or else by all fair and just means to be managed; and all fit opportunities are to be watched, not so much to obtain a full Victory, as a quiet Conclusion; lest the Remedy prove, as it doth frequently, worse than the Disease. 2. Public Contentions, which are usually about the Succession, Power or Prerogative of Princes, and the Liberties or Properties of Subjects. And here, seeing Right and justice can be but with one of the contending Parties, both ought to find it out, and to acquiesce therein; and to beware, lest private Ends preponderate the Public Good, that Princes be not fond of unlimited Power, nor Subjects fond of unlimited Liberty.

1. Of the Matter of Contentions; and they are either of a Civil, or of a Spiritual Nature. 1. Of a Civil Nature, which concern Men in their Lives, Liberties, Names, or Estates: And these are either Private ⟨image 27⟩or Publick. 1. Private Contentions, which are about Meum and Tuum; and these are troublesome to those which are in the right, and damnable to those that are in the wrong, and oftentimes ruinous unto both; and therefore are by all good means to be prevented, or else by all fair and just means to be managed; and all fit opportunities are to be watched, not so much to obtain a full Victory, as a quiet Conclusion; lest the Remedy prove, as it doth frequently, worse than the Disease. 2. Publick Contentions, which are usually about the Succession, Power or Prerogative of Princes, and the Liberties or Properties of Subjects. And here, seeing Right and ••stice can be but with one of the contending Parties, both ought to find it out, and to acquiesce therein; and to beware, lest private Ends preponderate the Publick Good, that Princes be not fond of unlimited Power, nor Subjects fond of unlimited Liberty.