fought close to the very same towne where that Rape and Murder had been committed Plutarch affirming that the Gods were impatient to suffer any longer their delay of Justice 6. The Omission of Justice by Cicero and some other Senators upon Iulius Caesar that was of the Conspiracie of h Catilina was the cause of the losse of the Romanes Libertie and of the miserable end of Cicero and of the greater part of those Romane Senators 7. The Omission of Justice by i Henry the fourth King of France upon the whole Societie of Jesuites inhabiting his dominions for an attempt made upon his sacred Person by a Student of their Societie was the cause he was three years after perfidiously murdered by their instigation by that horrid Paricide Ravilliac 8. The deniall of Justice by the Inhabitants of k Gibeah for the Murder committed upon the Levites Concubine was the cause of the death of forty thousand Israelites and of the utter extermination of the Tribe of Benjamine six hundred men only excepted 9. The Indulgence of Eli to his two l sonnes Hophni and Phineas was the cause of his suddaine death of the miserable end of his sonnes and of this heavie curse upon his Posteritie I have sworne saith the Lord unto the house of Eli that the wickednesse of Eli's house shall not be purged with sacrifice nor offering for ever 10. The Omission of Justice by King m David upon Amnon his sonne for the Rape of Tamar was the cause of the Murder of Amnon of the rebellion and of the miserable end of Absalom 11. The Omission of Justice by King n David upon the house of Saul because he had contrarie to the Oath of the People of Israel destroyed the greater part of the Gibeonites was the cause of three yeares famine in Israel that ceased not before Justice had been executed upon seven men of the house of Saul 12. The Omission of Justice by o Ahab upon Benhadad was the cause of his death and of this fearefull denunciation against him Thus saith the Lord because thou hast let goe out of thy hands a man whom I had appointed to die thy life shall goe for his life and thy people for his people For the second of the benefits that accrew by the speedy and unpartiall execution of Justice 1. A certaine King of the Locresians having made a Law against p Adultery That whosoever should be convinced of it should have both his eyes put out His onely Sonne being the first he immediately caused his sonnes left eye and his own right eye to be put out before all his Subjects to authorize his Law and to execute Justice for which he was reverenced beloved and honoured by all men in his life time and is in these dayes admired for his unpartiall execution of Justice 2. Lucius q Iunius Brutus first Consul of the Romanes having been informed that two of his sonnes divers of his Nephewes and many young noble men had conspired to deliver up the City of Rome to Tarquinius he caused them to be apprehended sate with the Judges at their Triall and being convinced accompanied them to the block perswading the executioner to rid the world speedily of such Traitours to their Countrey and so by this unpartiall Justice of his he preserved his Common-weale and was so beloved and honoured of his Citizens that the Romane Ladies mourned a whole yeare for his death 3. Titus r Manlius Generall of the Romanes having caused to be proclaimed thorow his Army that none upon paine of death should fight against any of the Latines their enemies that were incamped within a mile of the Romanes Camp his sonne being appointed the next day to discover with a Troope of horse the posture of the enemie was challenged by a Chiefe Officer of the enemies horse to a single fight that came also to discover the Posture of the Romanes but he refused the Challenge because of his fathers Command yet being overcome by the insolencie of his enemie that accused him of cowardize he advanced before his Troope and fought with him slew him and carried away his Horse and Armes and was conducted with a great part of the Army in a Triumphant manner into the Camp But comming into his fathers Tent he was apprehended tried and executed in the presence of his father notwithstanding the great intreaty of the Officers of the Army Titus Manltus answering either I must by the naturall compassion of a father overthrow for ever the Military Discipline of the Romanes in pardoning my son so great an offence or by an unpartiall Justice preferre the good of my Countrey to my sonnes life This unpartiall Justice of his upon so valiant a son although it seemed rigorous to the younger sort yet the ancient Senators did greatly commend it for it fell out to be very profitable to the Romane Common-weale because it maintained their Discipline in force for a long time untill Scipio his dayes the which was revived again by this noble action following 4. Publius Scipio Generall of a great Army of the Romanes in Spaine having in a manner finished the warres and reduced that Kingdome under the Romans yoke fell sick at new Carthage upon the report of his perillous sicknesse eight thousand Romane souldiers that lay in an intrenched Camp neare to the river Succo some twenty miles distance from Carthage to preserve the confederate Counties from the incursions of the enemies began to mutiny for their pay and some licentious souldiers among them fomented the same and after they had driven away their Colonels and Captaines that opposed their rebellious actions they made choice of Albinus Calenus and Atrius Vmber two licentious common souldiers for their Commanders in Chiefe and entertained correspondencie with Mandonius and Iudibilis the Generals of the enemie and so fell a plundering their associated Counties hoping to inrich themselves without danger upon the report of their Generals death but s Scipio being somewhat recovered and past danger he sent presently six well-affected Colonels to informe them of his recovery and to perswade them to submit themselves to his mercy whereupon they began to consult what they should doe to prevent their ruine and so resolved to leave their Armes in their Camp and to goe to Carthage for their pay and to recover their Generals favour disdaining any longer to submit themselves so low as to be at the beck of two such base and ambitious fellowes as Albinus and Atrius whereupon Scipio being acquainted of their resolution fained to undertake a designe and caused his forces and carriages to advance out of towne to free the mutiners of all suspition onely commanded some trusty souldiers to welcome the Heads of them and under colour of complement to goe along with them to their lodging by which meanes they were all apprehended and fettered that night and in the morning caused all the rest to be summoned to appeare before his Tribunal
where they were no sooner come but they were invironed with those Horse and Foot that seemed the day before to have gone out upon a designe and hereupon were extremely amazed for feare they should all be put to the sword But Scipio having commanded silence made an Oration to them and reprehended their rashnesse indiscretion and infidelity and that by the Lawes of warre he might make them all a publike example of Justice for the time to come but considering that they had been for the greater part seduced by some pernicious Agents of Albinus and Atrius he was contented upon Promise of Amendment to give them their pardon and would content himselfe with the death of thirty of the Chiefe Authors of this mutiny And so caused them to be brought forth fettered as they were and to be whipped with scourges before all the Army and afterwards to be beheaded This speedy and unpartiall Justice was very profitable to the Romanes to uphold their Military Discipline that began to be corrupted and Scipio obtained great honour by it and the love of all his Army having mingled Mercy with Justice This point deserves to be taken into consideration by them in Authoritie for our Generals are abused and their honour and reputation betrayd by the perfidious carriages and counsels of some of their Officers which deserve to be made an Example of Justice to others otherwise this warre is like to be spinned out till there be no more oyle in the Lampe to keep it burning 5. t Cambyses King of Persia notwithstanding that he was a Tyrant yet to winne the love of his Subjects he did administer speedy and unpartiall Justice for hearing of a Judge that took bribes to pervert Justice he caused him to be flead alive and his skin to be nailed upon the Chaire where the Judges sate to give Judgement for a memorandum to others to administer Justice speedily and unpartially 6. Absalom to withdraw the hearts of the people of Isreal from his Father and to win their love complained that Justice was neglected and used to utter this insinuating exclamation u O that I were made a Iudge in the land that any one that hath any suite or cause might come unto me And I would doe him Iustice c. 7. Charles the fifth and x Lewis the twelfth Kings of France were so beloved and honoured of their Subjects for their speedy and unpartiall administration of Justice that the first obtained the honourable attribute of a Wise King and the second of a Just Prince and the nursing Father of his People 8. y Henry the eighth King of England never obtained more honour nor more love of his Subjects then when he gave way that Sr Richard Empson and Edmund Dudley Esquire should be made publike Examples of Justice for the incredible oppressions they had committed upon his Subjects in his Father Henry the sevenths time 9. The speedy and unpartiall Justice of the Children of Levi in going out from gate to gate throughout the Camp slaying every man his z brother and every man his Companion and every man his neighbour according to the Commandement of Moses was so acceptable to God that it appeased his wrath 10. The speedy and unpartiall execution of justice by King David upon the a Amalekite that confessed before him that he had slain King Saul his mortall enemie was very acceptable unto God and was the cause that the Tribes of Iudah and Benjamine proclaimed him King with great joy 11. The speedy and unpartiall execution of Justice by the same King upon Rechab and b Baanah that had persidiously murdered Ishbosheth their Lord and Master hoping thereby to obtain some great reward of King David because he was his Competitor was acceptable unto God and the Cause that he won the love of all Israel and was suddainly after proclaimed King over all the twelve Tribes of Israel 12. It appeares in divers places of the second book of Samuel how much King David was discontented because he had not the power to administer speedy and unpartiall Justice upon Ioab Generall of his Army for his persidious Carriage toward Abner and Amasa whom he murdred under colour of love and courtly complements yet on his death bed he commanded King Salomon his sonne that he should not suffer the c hoary head of Ioab to goe down in peace to the grave by which command it appeares how much this good Kings heart was inclined to execute Justice and how just and wonderfull the judgements of the Lord are upon such murderers as Ioab was that could not escape at the end his avenging hand although it was deferred for a time Now I come to the third point to prove how acceptable the speedy and unpartiall execution of Justice is to God and how odious it is to him if it be delaid and omitted 1. The speedy execution of Justice by Phinehas upon Zimri and Cozbi was so acceptable unto the Lord that it turned away his wrath from his people of Israel and procured to d Phinehas this Promise Wherefore behold I give unto him my Covenant of Peace And he shall have it and his seed after him even the Covenant of an everlasting Priesthood because he was zealous for his God and made an atonement for the children of Israel c. 2. Moses the servant of God for an extraordinary blessing to the e Tribe of Dan saith And he came with the head of the people he executed the Iustice of the Lord c. meaning that this Tribe above all others should have Rulers that would administer Justice speedily and impartially which was in Moses opinion one of the greatest blessings that could befall men 3. f Bildad the Shuhite one of the three intimate friends of Iob to prove the incomprehensible Justice of God said to him Doth God pervert Iudgement or doth the Almighty pervert Iustice c. Now the more just and unpartiall Magistrates are in the administration of justice the neerer they approach in imitation to that incomprehensible perfection of Justice that is in God For by him g Princes doe raigne and doe decree Justice c. for they are indeed his Deputies to administer Justice 4. The Lord was so well pleased to see Justice unpartially administred by the Rulers that returned from the Captivitie of Babylon that he bestowed this blessing upon Jerusalem for it The Lord blesse thee O habitation of Iustice and Mountaine of h holinesse c. Justice being reputed here for a speciall degree of holinesse 5. To administer Justice unpartially it is to obey the Commandement of the Lord Keepe ye i Iudgement for my Salvation is at hand c. and again Defend the poore and fatherlesse doe k Iustice to the afflicted and to the needy c. 6. The Lords wrath is inflamed when Justice is delayed or omitted They aske of me saith he the l Ordinances of Iustice c. meaning to rebuke
therefore it is by warre that so many Nations Kingdomes and Common-weales have been utterly destroyed and consumed and above all by an intestine and Civill warre for a Nation being weakned by her own hands it breeds an opportunity for forraigne Princes to fall upon it and subvert and conquer the same But forraigne warres are often profitable to Kingdomes or Common-weales so they be managed without the limits of those Kingdomes or Common-weales Carthage flourished as long as b Hannibal wasted Italy But when Scipio came with a great Army to their gates misery and destruction issued upon it c England flourished when war was maintained in France but when the English were driven home it was wasted and desolated by Civill commotions and an intestine warre And therefore it is a sound and a sure Maxime or Reason of State to entertaine warre abroad that a Kingdome may be freed from it at home And this Maxime was carefully observed by the Romanes for a long time but as soon as they neglected the same they fell into civill contentions and into intestine warres As long as the French Nation entertained warres in Italy to recover the right they had in the Kingdome of Naples and in the Duchy of Milan France did prosper and flourish but as soon as that fatall Peace was concluded between d Henry the second King of France and Philip King of Spaine by the procurement of the Constable of France that aimed more at his own ends then to advance the honour of his King and the good of his native Countrie And that Savoy Piedmont and the rest of the dominions that the French held in Italy were made over to the Duke of Savoy as an inconsiderate dowry of King Henries daughter that he tooke to wife then issued presently after the destructive Civill warres of France that continued three and thirty yeares and consumed above eight hundred thousand men of the French Nation and brought that Kingdome to the very brim of destruction But when it had pleased God by an unexpected mercy and by the wisedome valour and clemencie of * Henry the fourth to reunite the alienated affections of that populous nation and to keepe or observe the above-said Maxime and to drive this intestine warre into Artois and Flanders and to fire the dominions of the Incendiarie of the French Civill warres then began that Kingdome to flourish again for this diversion procured an honourable peace of ten yeares for the French in the which that politick King to entertaine the foresaid Maxime sent most of the licentious and contentious spirits of his Kingdome unto Hungaria and into the low Countries and by these meanes restored that desolated Kingdome into a most flourishing estate And his Counsellours of State that had the managing of the Military and Politick affaires of the Kingdome after his death during the Minority of Lewis the 13. his son perceiving that for want of forraigne employment the French Nobility began to soment Civill Commotions in the Kingdome aided by the Spanish faction they were constrained to embrace again this ancient Maxime which they have constantly observed to this day and have by it maintained the honour of their King and much increased their Dominions Even so out of this principle or Reason of State did Queene e Elizabeth undertake the protection of the Low Countries that the English Nobility might have employment abroad and exercise themselves in Military exploits that she might have alwayes ready some experienced Commanders and Officers of Capacity to leade an Army if her enemies attempted any invasion upon her dominions and this her wise and politick course succeeded most happily for she maintained thereby her Kingdome in peace and in a prosperous condition suppressed the rebellions in Ireland aided the French with her Treasures and with experienced Commanders Officers and Souldiers curbed the insolencie of the Spaniard by Sea and made the naturall colour of that element to be often changed into Crimson by the undaunted valour and the great experience of her Commanders Officers and Mariners in Sea-fights And by her warlike expeditions to Cales and the West India increased her Ships and Navies and all manner of Trade and commerce and left at her death England and Ireland in a prosperous peace and condition By these Instances and many more that might be produced to the same end it is apparent that forraigne warres are often times profitable in these foure cases so they be managed out of the limits of a Kingdome or Common-weale 1. It purgeth them of licentious men 2. It frees them of Civill commotions and intestine warres 3. It is a Nurcery for Commanders and experienced Officers 4. It increaseth commerce and trading and doth rather inrich a Kingdome then waste the same 1. The Romanes never inroled any souldiers for their forraign warres out of their inhabitants or Citizens before all the licentious and contentious men that are apt to breed Civill commotions had been f inroled and when they had subdued a Kingdome or Province they erected Colonies in it where they sent all the most licentious men of their City and their old souldiers to whom they appointed so much land as they might live with all 2. It frees a Kingdome from Civill commotions for if licentious and needy people find but some discontented Nobles to side withall they will presently foment a party and kindle the fire of a Civill warre but as the only way to quench a fire is to take from it the combustible matter that increaseth the same even so to prevent Civill distractions we are to purge the City and Kingdome of licentious and decaied men and to send them away into forraigne warres 3. Few or none are ignorant that the Germane and the Low Countrie warres have beene the Nurcery of the greater part of the experienced English French and Scotch Commanders and Officers that are now in these dayes It is true that of these three Nations the number of the English is the smallest because that in the peaceable Raigne of King James Commanders and Officers of experience in warre were not regarded yet those that out of a naturall inclination to Armes went thither to be trained up are not inferiour to any but the number of them is so small that they are now constrained to employ licentious Germanes for principall officers but Germany Sweden and England it selfe is beholden to the Scots for Commanders and Officers of warre And for the French the Maxime of Henry the fourth afore related hath much increased the Capacity of the French Nobility and of their foot souldiers in martiall exploits so that for seiges or battels they are not inferiour to any And therefore forraigne warres are the Nurcery of experienced Commanders and Officers of warre 4. For the increase of Trade and Commerce the forraigne warre that the French and the Hollanders have maintained these many yeares against the House of Austria hath much increased their trade and commerce and are now