The second part of The nonconformists plea for peace being an account of their…

III. And the judgement of the most famous Lawyers; especially such as were the most strenuous defenders of Monarchy; of whom Goldastus notifieth divers that defended ⟨p. 129⟩the German Emperors: But Barclay and Grotius are of all the most eminent.

IV. And in another Column the judgement of many English Bishops, Doctors and Historians.

But the plain truth is, that I fear should I recite their words they would be misinterpreted and do hurt: He that would see what the first sort of old Greek and Latin Authors say, may find much in their sentences collected by Alstedius in his Encyclop. Horileg. Polit. where you have enough to make a Volume out of Herodotus, Thucydides, Zenophon, Polybius, Sallustius, Livy, Tacitus, Comminaeus, &c. of Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, Isocrates, Agapetus, Cicero, Pliny: And indeed so many of the […]amousest Greek and Latin Philosophers, Historians and Orators, were so much for Liberty and spake so dangerously of Tyrants, and praised the Killing of them, and had so mean or bad thoughts of Kings that were not eminently good, that it is enough that their books are in the hands of Scholars.

But the plain truth is, that I fear should I recite their words they would be misinterpreted and do hurt: He that would see what the first sort of old Greek and Latine Authors say, may find much in their sentences collected by Alstedius in his Encyclop. Horileg. Polit. where you have enough to make a Volume out of Herodotus, Thucydides, Zenophon, Polybius, Sallustius, Livy, Tacitus, Comminaeus, &c. of Plato, Aristotle, Plutarch, Isocrates, Agapetus, Cicero, Pliny: And indeed so many of the 〈…〉amousest Greek and Latine Philosophers, Historians and Orators, were so much for Liberty and spake so dangerously of Tyrants, and praised the Killing of them, and had so mean or bad thoughts of Kings that were not eminently good, that it is enough that their books are in the hands of Scholars.