A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many useful questions and cases of conscience are…A treatise of miscellany questions wherein many usefull questions and cases of conscience are…

The rule was good in thesi. although in that particular case misapplied. The very heathens had a notion of the unlawfulness of confederacies with wicked men, for as Victorinus Strigelius on 2 Chron: 25. noteth out of Aeschylus his tragedy, entitled, Seven to Thebes, Amphiaraus a wise virtuous man was therefore swallowed up in the earth with seven men, and seven horses, because he had associate himself with Tydeus; Capaneus, and other impious Commanders marching to the siege of Thebes. Lastly, take this reason for further confirmation, as we must do all to the glory of God, so we must not make Wars to our selves, but to the Lord; hence the book of the Wars of the Lord, Num: 21, 14, and, the battle is not ours, but the Lords. 1 Sam: 25, 28, 2 Chron: 20, 15. Now how shall we employ them that hate the Lord, to help the Lord? or how shall the enemies of his glory do for his glory? Shall rebels ⟨p. 179⟩& traitors be taken to fight in the Kings Wars? Offer it to thy Governor, as it is said, Mal. 1. see if he would take this well.

The rule was good in thesi. although in that particular case misapplyed. The very heathens had a notion of the unlawfulnesse of confederacies with wicked men, for as Victorinus Strigelius on 2 Chron: 25. noteth out of Aeschylus his tragedy, intituled, Seven to Thebe, Amphiaraus a wise vertuous man was therefore swallowed up in the earth with seven men, and seven horses, because he had associat himself with Tydeus; Capaneus, and other impious Commanders marching to the siege of Thebe. Lastly, take this reason for further confirmation, as wee must doe all to the glory of God, so wee must not make Warres to our selves, but to the Lord; hence the booke of the Warres of the Lord, Num: 21, 14, and, the battel is not ours, but the Lords. 1 Sam: 25, 28, 2 Chron: 20, 15. Now how shall we imploy them that hate the Lord, to help the Lord? or how shall the enemies of his glory do for his glory? Shall rebels ⟨p. 179⟩& traitors be taken to fight in the Kings Wars? Offer it to thy Governour, as it is said, Mal. 1. see if he would take this wel.