A treatise of civil policy

7. The Law of nature excepteth no violence, whether inflicted by a magistrate, or any other unjust violence from a ruler is twice injustice. 1. He doth unjustly as a man. 2. As a member of the common-wealth. 3. He committeth a special kind of sin of injustice, against his office, but it is absurd to say we may lawfully d• fend our selves from smaller injuries, by the law of nature; and not from the greater. If the Pope (saith Fer. Vasquez. illust. quest. l. 1. c. 24. n. 24, 25.) command to take away benefices from the just owner, these who are to execute his commandment, are not to obey, but to write back that that mandate came not from his holiness, but from the avarice of his Officers; but if the Pope still continue and press the same unjust Mandate, the same should be written again to him: and though there be none above the Pope, yet there is natural self-defence patent for all. Defensio vitae nece•aria est, & à jure naturali profluit: L. ut vim. ff. de just. & jure 16. Nam quod quisque ob tutelam corporis sui fecerit, jure fecisse videatur. C•jus naturale. 1. distinc. l. 1. ff. de vi & vi armata. l. injuriarum. ff. de injuria. C. significasti. 2. de hom. l. scientiam. sect. qui non aliter ff. ad leg. Aquil. C. si vero 1. de sent. excom. & l. sed etsi ff. ad leg. Aquil. etiamsi sequatur homicidium. Vasquez. l. 1. c. 17. n. 5. etiam occidere licet ob ⟨p. 336⟩defensionem rerum. Vim vi repellere omnia jura permittunt in C. significasti. Garcias Fortunius Comment. in l. ut vim. ff. de instit▪ & jur. n. 3. defendere se est juris naturae & gentium. A jure civili fuit additum moderamen inculpatae tutelae. lac. Novel. defens. n. 101. Occidens Principem vel alium Tyrannidem exercentem, à paena homicidii excusatur. Grotius de jure belli & pacis, l. 2. c. 1. n. 3. Si corpus impetatur vi presente, cum periculo vitae non aliter vitabili, tune bellum est licitum etiam cum intersectione periculum inf•rentis, ratio, natura quemque sibicommendat. Barcl. advers. Monar. l. 3. c. 8▪ est jus cuilibet see tenendi adversus immanem sevitiam.

7. The Law of nature excepteth no violence, whether inflicted by a magistrate, or any other unjust violence from a ruler is twice injustice. 1. He doth unjustly as a man. 2. As a member of the common-wealth. 3. He committeth a speciall kind of sin of injustice, against his office, but it is absurd to say we may lawfully d fend our selves from smaller injuries, by the law of nature; and not from the greater. If the Pope (saith Fer. Vasquez. illust. quest. l. 1. c. 24. n. 24, 25.) command to take away benefices from the just owner, these who are to execute his commandement, are not to obey, but to write back that that mandat came not from his holinesse, but from the avarice of his Officers; but if the Pope still continue and presse the same unjust Mandat, the same should be written againe to him: and though there be none above the Pope, yet there is naturall self-defence patent for all. Defensio vitae necearia est, & à jure naturali profluit: L. ut vim. ff. de just. & jure 16. Nam quod quisque ob tutelam corporis sui fecerit, jure fecisse videatur. Cjus naturale. 1. distinc. l. 1. ff. de vi & vi armata. l. injuriarum. ff. de injuria. C. significasti. 2. de hom. l. scientiam. sect. qui non aliter ff. ad leg. Aquil. C. si vero 1. de sent. excom. & l. sed etsi ff. ad leg. Aquil. etiamsi sequatur homicidium. Vasquez. l. 1. c. 17. n. 5. etiam occidere licet ob