A BRIEFE CONFERENCE OF DIVERS LAWES Diuided into certaine Regiments By Lodowick LLoyd Esquier one of her Maiesties Serieants at Armes Eccle. 21. Vidi in loco iudicij impietatem in loco institiae iniquitatem LONDON Printed by Thomas Creede 1602. TO THE MOST HIGH AND MIGHTIE PRINCE Elizabeth by the grace of God Queene of England France and Ireland c. I Knew not how most gratious Queene to make my most bounden dutifull seruice known vnto your Maiestie But as Dauids seruaunts ventured theyr liues through the middest of their enemies to fetch water from the well of Bethelem to please their Lord and Maister So my selfe thought it my dutie to trauell into some farre countries in no daunger but of your Maiesties displeasure by presenting some straunge Iewels among so many as might dislike your Highnesse which should scorch mee more then the Sunne did Ionas when his gourd was off and terrifie me more then the countenance of Moses terrified the Iewes without his vaile on But your Maiestie which forget nothing but iniuries will the sooner forgiue mee my ouermuch boldnesse the rather for that I present your highnesse but with Iewels such as far excell the Iewels on Aarons garment the onely pearles which ought to be bought with al the wealth we haue the Iewels which we ought to seeke with all the studie and trauell wee can the onely Vrim and Thummim which should shine bright on a Princes breast which the auncient Kings of Israel ware as tablets about their necks as frontlets on their foreheads and gardes on their garments which Iewels many other kings sought and mist. Licurgus sought these Iewels for the Lacedemonians at Delphos Mena sought them of Mercurius for Egipt Numa of the Nymph Egeria for the Romanes Zaleucus of Minerua for the LocreaÌ„s Of these Iewels also I brought the best Pearles I could finde among them vnto your Maiestie in hope of your wonted gracious fauour to accept these Iewels for their owne sake as Artaxerxes accepted water of the riuer Cyrus for Cyrus sake Your Maiesties most bounden and obedient seruant Lodowick LLoyd A BRIEFE CONFErence of diuers Lawes diuided into certaine regiments In the first Regiment is expressed the antiquitie and force of the Lawe the states of Common-wealths vnder diuers kindes of gouernments ALl creatures of God as well in heauen as in earth had lawes giuen them after they were created to be gouerned and ruled by the Sunne the Moone and the Starres to keepe their perpetuall motions and course in their places and regiments so the seas haue their limits and bounds how farre they should rule and raigne and though one starre differeth from an other in glorie in greatnesse and in brightnesse yet are they gouerned by one perpetuall lawe so the seas though the waues thereof be so loftie and proud yet are they shut vp within doores and commaunded to keepe in and not to goe further then the place to them by lawe appointed By lawe also the elements are commaunded to staie within their owne regiments without trespassing one of another as Manilius faith Certa stant omnia lege For the stanes by lawe haue their leaders before them they haue their watch giuen them they haue their motions and marching appointed them and as all riuers and waters haue their course and recourse to the seas and from the seas as from their chiefe commaunder so all starres haue their brightnesse light from the Sun as from their chiefe generall Neither were the Angels in heauen being the first and the chiefest creatures of God nor man in Paradise beeing the last creature Tanquam Epilogus operum dei without lawe the breach wherof made such a generall confusion that it so obscured the first integritie of the lawe of nature that the Angels that offended in heauen lost heauen and were iudged to perpetuall darkenesse and man for his disobedience in Paradise cast out of Paradise to euerlasting punishment so that the Angels were not pure nor the heauens cleare before God The earth likewise and the seas and all the creatures in them by breaking of the first lawe which Tertullian calleth Primordialem lâ—…gem legum omnium matricem lost the benefites of the first creation for in Adams fall all creatures were cursed which made Augustine to woÌ„der Vtrùm mirabilius homines iustos creare quà m iniustos instificare whether the mercy of God were more in creating iust men or in iustifying wicked men though with God it was of equall and like power yet said Augustine it was of greater mercy to iustifie vniust men for that Iustificatio er at secunda hominis creatio Yet the old Patriarches liued vnder the lawe of nature so Paul testifieth that the lawe was first written not in tables of stones but in fleshly tables of the heart for I will put my lawe saith the Lorde in their inward parts and in their hearts will I write it so Augustine saith Audi linguam non in lapide sed in corde scribentem for from the eternall lawe which is Creatrix gubernatrix vniuersitatis was reuiued and lightned the lawe of nature vnder the which the Patriarches liued for the lawe of nature which the Patriarches had being not corrupted differeth nothing froÌ„ the written lawe giuen to Moses which is the whole summe of the morall lawe What else is the lawe written giuen to Moses but a short repetition and compendious catalogue expounding vnto vs the lawe of nature beeing obscured and corrupted by the fall of Adam but by the second Adam renued written and giuen to Moses in tables of stones Tanquam norma rectitudinis in Deo So Paule sayeth that if the Gentiles which haue not the lawe doo by nature those things contained in the lawe they hauiug not the lawe are a lawe to themselues and therefore the Heathens are not excuseable for conscience which is that Flammeus gladius is a witnesse of theyr fault and a signe of the anger and iudgement against them for theyr sinne Agnitio Peccatilex and therefore the lawe was giuen to shewe vs our infirmities and that by the lawe grace might bee sought for Fides enim impetrat quod lex imperat for when the lawe was first giuen in Mount Sinai to Moses it was with such feare lightning and thundering with such cloudes smoake and fire that euery part of Sinai trembled and quaked when the lawe was giuen for the law is full of terror and ministreth vnto death The law said Plato punisheth wicked meÌ„ rewardeth good meÌ„ so Cicero saith Lex vitioruÌ„ emeÌ„datrix virtutuÌ„ est commendatrix By the lawe we know our selues without the which we wander in darknesse without light in ignorance without knowledge in sin without feare whose force and authoritie is from God and not from man so could Cicero say Tantalegis vis est vt ea non homini sed deo Delphico tribueretur And therefore the first and auncient kings and
of 20. of the best learned Ciuilians with the aduise and consent of 50. of the grauest and wifest councellors that were within his Empire to examine whether the lawes were iust profitable for the people before they should be published but being once published as a lawe extreame punishment was appointed for the breach thereof as is before spoken without any appeale frō the lawe without some great extraordinary cause of appeale As among the Hebrewes in any citie of Iudah that if they could not rightly iudge nor discerne throughly the cause according to iustice by the Magistrates of the citie they might appeale to the Iudges named Sinadrion in Ierusalem from whence no appeale could be had So among the Grecians they might appeale from the Areopagites in Athens from the Ephories in Sparta and all other cities of Greece to the Amphictions at Trozaena which were appointed general Iudges for the vniuersall state of Greece in martiall and military causes and there to sit and determine twise a yeare of the whole state of Greece and further to heare and to iudge of some other great causes and capitall crimes from whose sentence no other appeale was to be had for out of euery citie in Greece in the Spring and in the Autumne to the Amphictions at Trozaena they sent Embassadors whom the Greekes called Pytagorae So among the Romanes a lawfull appeale might be had from the Consuls to the Senators from the Senators to the Tribune of the people and from the people to the Dictator which continued vntill the time of the Iudges called Centum viri for Sententia Dictatoris iudicia centum viralia were both lawes of life and death from whose iudgement and sentences there were no greater Iudges to appeale vnto of the like authoritie were the Decem viri from whom also there was no appeale during their gouernment So in diuine causes we may appeale to mount Sion from Mount Sinai from the lawe to the Gospell from Moses to Christ our perpetuall Dictator from whom we haue no place to appeale vnto for our eternall saluation In the fift Regiment is declared the choice of wise Gouernours to gouerne the people and to execute the lawes among all Nations and also the education and obedience of theyr children to their Parents and Magistrates ALl Nations made their choise of the wisest and chiefest men to rule and gouerne their countrey imitating Moses who was by the Lord commanded to choose seuentie wise graue men to be Iudges among the Israelites called Synadrion which continued from Moses time who first appointed these Magistrates vntill Herods time who last destroyed them for in euery citie of Iudah seuen Magistrates were appointed to gouerne and to iudge according to the law of Moses and for their further instructions in the lawe they had of the Tribes of the Leuites two in euery citie to instruct and assist the Magistrates in all actions according to the lawe The Egiptians being next neighbours to the Hebrewes though they mortally hated the Hebrewes yet theyr gouernment of Dinastia vnder thirtie Gouernours elected and chosen out of Eliopolis Memphis Pellusium Thaebes and other chiefe cities of Egipt seemed to imitate Moyses lawe vnder Aristocratia So Solon appointed in Athens certaine wise men called Areopagitae as Iudges to determine of life and death and of other criminall causes Among the old Gaules the Druydes sage and wise religious men had authoritie both in warre and peace to make lawes and to determine of the state of theyr countrey The lawes of all Nations against disobedient children to theyr parents are manifest not onely the lawe of nature among all Nations vnwritten but also the diuine lawe of the Lorde written commaundes children to bee obedient to theyr parents as the lawe sayeth Whosoeuer curseth his father or mother shall dye and his bloud bee on his owne head for that hee curseth his father or mother If a man hath a sonne that is stubborne or disobedient let his parentes bring him vnto the Elders of the Cittie and there accuse him of his faultes saying my sonne is a Ryotour a Drunkarde and disobedient vnto his parentes the lawe is that all the men of that Cittie shall stone him with stones to death This commaundement was esteemed among all Nations euen among wicked men as Esau beeing a reprobate so the Lorde saide Esau haue I hated and Iacob haue I loued yet Esau hating his brother Iacob in heart saying that the dayes of his fathers sorrowes were at hande for I will kill my brother and most like it is that he would haue done so had not the Lorde which appeared to Laban the Syrian in a dreame by night for that hee followed Iacob from Mesopotamia said to Laban Take heed to thy selfe that thou doo or speake to Iacob nothing but good as the Lorde kept Iacob from Laban so he kept him from his brother Esau. Notwithstanding Esau came to his father and said hast thou any blessing for me see that obedience and feare was in Esau towards his father Isaac though hee was a wicked man he determined not to kill his brother before his father died least Isaac his father should curse him The sonnes of Samuel the Prophet Ioel and Abiath which were made Iudges in Bersabe by rheyr father Samuel beeing olde they turned from theyr fathers wayes tooke rewards and peruerted the right the people complained to Samuel that his sonnes followed not his steppes and therefore they would haue a King to gouerne them as other nations had See the ende of Iudges in Israel by the wicked Iudges Ioel and Abiath two wicked sonnes of a good and godly father and the cause of the ouerthrowe of the Iudges in Israel The two sonnes of Eli their offences were such that their father being an olde man was rebuked of the Lord for suffering their vnthriftinesse and wickednesse which was the cause that the Priesthood was taken from the house of Eli for euer so that the gouernment of Iudges in Iudah and also of the Priesthood were taken away by the corruption and disobedience of wicked and vngodly children Obserue likewise the end of kings and kingdomes by wicked kings by Ahaz who offered his sonnes in fire to Moloch by Ioachim and his sonne wicked fathers which brought vp wicked sonnes The kings which were 21. in number continued fiue hundred and odde yeares Who would haue iudged that three such good Kings of Iudah should haue three such wicked children As Dauid had Absolon who sought most trecherously to dispossesse his father of his kingdome As Ezechias had Manasses who offered his sonne in fire to Moloch and filled Ierusalem with bloud Or as Iosias had Ioachim whose wickednesse together with Zedechiah was so disobedient to the Lord and his Prophets that he lost the kingdome of Iudah Who would haue iudged that Salomon the onely wise king of the world hauing
children to straunge Nations as the Phrygians and others did for to relieue theyr parents for necessitie sake and yet farre better then to burne kill and sacrifice theyr children to Images and Idols as Ahaz Manasses and others did Bocchoris made a lawe against idlenesse for all idle men in Egipt were compelled to write theyr names and to giue account how they liued This lawe was brought by Solon from Egipt vnto Athens where they gaue the like account in Athens as they did in Egipt before the Areopagites for we read that the figge tree because it was barren and bare no fruite was spoyled of his leaues and therefore the well exercised man is compared to the Bee that gathereth honye of euery weede and the euil sloathful man to the Spider which gathereth poison of euery flower Bocchoris made an other lawe against those that clipt any coine diminished the waight changed the form or altered the letters about the coine that both their hands should be cut off for Bocchoris lawe was that those members should be punished that committed the offence So carefull were the Hebrew women for their children that their fathers should not name them but the mothers should giue them such names as should signifie some goodnesse or holinesse to come as a memoriall to the parents to thinke vpon their children besides giuing them their names their naturall mothers should be Nurses to their childrē as Sarah was a Nurse to Isaac her son Zephorah a Nurse to her son Moses the blessed Virgin Mary a Nurse to her sonne Christ Iesus our Sauiour so the two wiues of Iacob Leah and Rachel gaue names to all their children the twelue Patriarkes the sonnes of Iacob So Iacob corrected his children kept them vnder and blessed them at his death so Iob prayed for his children and offered for his children vnto the Lord euery day a burnt offering and so was Dauid for his sonne Salomon so carefull that he committed him to the Prophet Nathan to be brought vp in wisedome and in the law of the Lord this care had the Hebrewes to bring vp theyr children in the lawe and feare of the Lord. The very Heathens euen Phillip king of Macedonia was glad to haue his sonne Alexander borne in Aristotles daies because he might be brought vp in his house with him and instructed with so great a Philosopher Agamemnon was in his youth brought vp with wise Nestor of whom Agamemnon was wont to say that if he had but ten such wise Consuls as Nestor was he doubted not but soone to subdue Troy And so was Antigonus brought vp with Zeno chiefe of the Stoik Philosophers where hee could heare see nothing but what he sawe and heard from his maister Zeno. There bee many parents in the world that weigh not how they liue themselues neither esteeme how to bring vp their children like the Troglodites whose children were named after the names of the beastes of their countrey as horse ramme oxe sheepe lambe and such alledging that the beasts were their best parents in feeding in cloathing and in all other necessary helpes and therefore they would rather bee named after these beasts that maintained them in life and liuing then after their parents who gaue them but bare birth against the lawe of nature and therfore they and such are to be called Antinomi I doubt too many of these in many places may bee called Antinomi which degenerate from their parents both in name and in nature yea from all lawes rather to be beasts then to haue the name of beasts like people in Affrica called Atlantes whose children haue no names at all but as the Troglodites were named after theyr beasts and therefore well called Antinomi so these people leaue their children like themselues without names not like beasts but beasts indeed and therefore well and truly to be called Anomi for many haue the names of beasts that be neither beasts nor like beasts for as the Troglodites that before their parents preferre beastes against the lawe of nature are called Antinomi so these Atlantes in Affrica worse then beasts are called Anomi which is without any name It is much therefore in parents to shewe good examples before their children for what children see in the parents or heare from theyr parents that lightly will they imitate for the tree is bended when it is tender the horse is broken when he is a colte and the dogge taught when hee is a whelpe so children must be instructed and brought vp when they are young for that seede which is sowed in youth appeareth in age for Vertue must haue a time to growe to ripenesse Therfore Marc Cato the Censor made meanes to remoue Manlius from the Senat house because he wantonly imbraced and kist his wife before his daughter saying that his wife durst neyther imbrace nor kisse him before his children but for very feare when it lightned and thundered Hieron King of Cicilia sharpely punished Epicarmus the Poet for that he made and read certaine light verses before his daughter So was Ouid for the like offence bannished from Rome and so was Archiloccus from Sparta for saying it was better for a souldier to loose his shield then to loose his life The children of Bethel had they bene well brought vp they would not haue mocked flouted Elizeus the Prophet they might as well haue said Ozanna in excelsis with the children of Ierusalem as to say Ascende calue vp balde fellowe But true it is as Isocrates faieth that rude and barbarous men not brought vp in Vertue from theyr youthes should neuer or seldome prooue iust or honest And so it is written that Equus indomitus euadet durus filius remissus euadet praeceps And therefore both the Romaines and the Grecians were carefull to haue graue wise vertuous and learned men to bring vp theyr children in the feare of God Among the Lacedemonians Licurgus lawe was that expert and iudiciall men should bee founde out which were named Paedonomi to instruct and teach the youth of Laced◅mon for in three things especially the Grecians brought theyr children vp in Learning in Painting and in Musicke and especially great mens children in dauncing and in singing as Epaminondas and Cimon and for that Themistocles Alcibiades found great fault for that great Captains should become dancers they were therefore reprehended and answered that Epaminondas and Cimon were as great Captaines as they The Egiptians were wont to bring vp theyr children in Arithmeticke and Geometry and the Kings children in Magicke People of Creete brought theyr children vp in three things first to learne the lawes of theyr countrey secondly to learne Hymnes and Psalmes to praise theyr gods and thirdly to learne to sing the praise and fame of their great Captaines Among the Indians theyr wise men called Brachmanes made a Lawe that theyr Children should be brought after two
seditious men that he made lawes and brake them himselfe to come with his sword on his side against his owne lawe to the Court Diocles forgetting that he had his sword on his side answered I will streight satisfie the lawe drew his sword out and slue himselfe in presence of all the multitude I am not ignorant that some say that Charondas was he that made this lawe and not Diocles. So Licurgus willingly banished himselfe to die out of his countrey that the lawes which he made in his countrey might continue according to the Oracle Pythagoras disciples thought whatsoeuer their maister said was sound and sure they would haue no other proofe but what Pythagoras said Ipse dixit Likewise Aristoles schollers they would seeke no other proofe whether it were right or wrong but what they found in Aristotles booke est Aristotelis Vilescit princeps qui quae iusserat vetat quae vetuerat iubet For the which fault Cato reprehended Pompey for that hee brake the lawe which hee made before when hee was Consull The Israelites had not such trust and confidence in their Lord and God as eyther the schollers of Pythygoras or of Aristotle had in their maisters but said wee will obey the Queene of heauen wee will sacrifice to the calfe in Bethel and offer our children to Moloch in the valley of Hinnon See the diffidence which the Israelites had of their Lord and God of whom the Prophet said Ipse dixit facta sunt ipse mandauit creata sunt for by his word heauen and earth were made and by his commaundement all things created and yet not so much obeyed as Pythagoras was of his disciples or Aristotle of his schollers nor so much worshipped of his people Israel as the two calues made by Ieroboam in Dan and Bethel Old customes once rooted in long time confirmed are taken for lawes also whatsoeuer is done by example it is supposed that it may bee done by lawe so Cicero saith Quod exemplo fit id etiam iure fieri putant when in truth wicked customes are named Vetustas erroris non veritas legis though corrupt and leaud manners of men were first the cause that lawes were made yet euill examples may not bee allowed as lawes The auntient fathers and Patriarkes were Poliga◅ but not thereby to make good lawes by ill examples for it is said Praua consetudo magnus tyr annus In the tenth Regiment is shewed the disobedience of man against the Lord with the seuere punishments of all nations against theft THe Lord commaunded rauens to feed Elias and they did obey him he commaunded the Sunne to stay ouer Gibeon and the Moone ouer Aialō a whole day and they obeyed him the Lord commaunded the winds the seas fire haile snowe Ise and tempests and they obeyed his commaundement all creatures obey the Lord but man the chiefe creature which the Lord created according to his owne Image And therefore said Cicero Legi obediunt maria terraeque hominum vitaiussis supraemaelegis obtemperat the heauens the earth the sea and all men liuing obey the supreme lawe which is the lawe of God which Cicero calleth the lawe of nature Lex est illa circaea virga qua taetaeferae hominesque mitescunt Lawe is the rod apointed to tame man and beast The fraud of Giezi Elizeus seruant because he went secretly like a theese after Naman the Syrian and made a large lye that Elizeus his maister sent for a Tallent of siluer and two garments the Prophet beeing his maister gaue sentence on him that the leprosie of Naman shoulde cleaue and sticke to him for euer Giezi heere stole nothing but onely for his falsehood and lyes which with sacriledge and robberies stealing of cattell fraud deceit and the like are included within the precept of stealing for the law is Thou shalt not steale nor deale falsly neither lie one to another thou shalt not do thy neighbour wrong neither robbe him The vision of the flying booke signified the curse of theeues and such as abuse the name of the Lorde with oathes for all theeues and swearers shall be iudged by this booke for this booke shall remaine in theeues houses and in the houses of them that sweare falsly by my name saith the Lord and shall consume them with the timber and stones thereof Many poore theeues are fettered chained in prisons but great and publike theeues are cloathed in gold and purple Such was Heliodorus that came to robbe the Temple of Ierusalem from king Zaleucus who was so scourged and whipt that for golde and siluer he had stripes and stroakes that scarse thence he escaped aliue So should Shesac king of Egipt Antiochus king of Syria Pompey the great and Mar. Crassus the Romain Consul these foure great mightie theeues had bene as wel plagued and punished as Heliodorus was when they robd the Temple had it not bene for the great sinnes of Iudah and Ierusalem Many like Dyonisius after he spoyled the temple of Proserpina in Locris and sailing with a good gale of wind from Locris to Syracusa see said he to his mates fellowes how prosperously we saile after this our sacriledge Many againe robbe in scoffing sort like the same Dyonisius the tyrant who tooke the golden garment from Iupiter Olimpian in Peloponesus saying that it was too heauie for sommer and too colde for winter and therefore he commaunded that Iupiter should be cloathed with a woollen garment light for sommer and warme for winter many such like sacriledges are scoffingly committed in Christian Churches Many make but a ieast of theyr theeuerye and falshood with Dyonisius who when hee had taken the golden beard of Aesculapius away said it was no reason the sonne should weare a beard seeing his father Appollo had none If any man be found stealing any of his brethren the children of Israel and selleth him the thiefe shall die for the same the like is spoken to him that taketh the neather or vpper milstone to pledge The seuere lawes that they had in Phrygia against theft were such that hee that stole but a ploughe share from the fielde or a forke or a rake from a meadowe should by the lawe in Phrygia die In Athens the lawes of Draco were so hard streight against theft that for the least filching or stealing the theefe should die for it If any man in Athens should steale hearbes to make pottage or to take some dung of beasts for to dung his owne ground from another mans ground it was by Dracoes lawe a capitall crime He that borrowed a Horse of his neighbour and would ride further then the place appointed by the lawe of Draco hee might haue an action and therefore Demades saide that Dracoes lawes were Leges sanguine scriptae lawes written with blood the least fault in Athens by the lawe of Draco
page 2 The lawe of nature is a short repetition of the lawe written pa. 3 The lawe writtten giuen to Moses pa. ead The credit and confirmation of lawes pa. 4 Chiefe magistrates and gouernors in diuers countries pa. 5 The Lord commaunded an aultar to be made pa. 6 Diuers aultars before the lawe written pa. ead How they vsed to write in auntitient time pa. 7 The first Image brought by Rachel Iacobs wife pa. 8 The Image of Belus in Niniuie pa. ead Ieroboam made two golden calues pa. ead Israel committed Idolatry while Moses was in the Mount pa. 9 Socrates poysoned in Athens for religion pa. 11 Platoes opinion of Poets and painters pa. ead Alcibiades banished from Athens pa. 12 Clodius slaine in Rome pa. ead Anacharsis slaine in Scythia pa. ead The vowes and supplications of the Gentiles pa. 13 Xerxes burnt the Temples in Greece pa. 14 The Rechabites lawes pa. ead The Prophet Ahiahs speech to Ieroboam pa. 15 Zaleucus lawes of religion to the Locreans pa. 16 Licurgus lawe against straungers in Sparta pa. ead Anaxagoras put to death pa. 17 The zeale of the Gentiles in theyr religion pa. ead Cyrus confessed the God of Israel pa. 18 Darius made a lawe that all dominions should feare the God of Daniel pa. 19 Egipt the mother of all Idolatrie pa. 20 The Iewes obserued straightly the lawes of Moses pa. 21 Diuers tooke vpon them to be the Messias pa. 22 Idolatrous sacrifice of the Gentiles pa. 23. No bloud offered in sacrifice by Licurgus lawe pa. ead Paul called in Athens Spermologos of the Philosophers pa. 24 Molochs reaching hand and seuen chambers pa. 25 Punishment of corrupt Iudges in Persia pa. 26 The lawe of the Lord set downe by Esay the Prophet pa. ead Of diuers kings blaspheming the name of the Lord pa. 27. Lysander and Pompeys taunt to a Lawyer pa. 28 Ceremoniall lawes of the Gentiles pa. 29 The Gentiles builded diuers temples to their Gods pa. ead The manner of the dedication of the Temples of the Heathens pa. 30 The consecratiō of Aaron by Moses pa. 31 By what authoritie all Nations confirme their lawes pa. 32 The straight obseruation of the Sabboth by the Iewes pa. 33 The second building of the Temple by the appointment of Cyrus pa. ead Diuers kindes of Sabboths among the Heathens pa. 34 The blasphemie of Nicanor pa. 35 How dearely the Iewes esteemed their lawes pa. 36 Certaine Romaines slaine by the Iewes pa. 37 The lawe of Iud. Machabaeus pa. ead Among the Heathens the Sabboth of the Lord was not knowne pa. 38 Licurgus lawe for time to goe to battell pa. 39 Before the Temple was made the Israelites came to Sitoh pa. 40 The continuance of Licurgus lawes pa. ead Charondas lawes against contemners of lawes pa. ead Licurgus lawe called Rhetra pa. 41 The lawe of the 12. Tables touching obedience pa. ead The summe of lawes set downe by Plato pa. 42 The forme and manner of diuers appeales among the Heathens pa. 43 The wise and graue Iudges in diuers countries pa. 44 Lawes of all nations against disobedient children pa. 45 Corruption of Iudges pa. 46 Good parents had ill children pa. ead Markes of monuments and couenants pa. 48. The lawes and care of the kings of Persia to bring vp their children pa. 49 Charondas lawe for education of children pa. ead Plato and Anacharsis lawe for the education of the youth in Greece pa. 50 The Romanes care for their children pa. ead Bocchoris lawes against idlenesse and clippers of coyne pa. 51 The care of the Hebrew women in naming and nursing theyr children pa. 52 The carelesse nature of the people called Troglodites Atlantes for their children pa. 53 Manlius remoued from the Senate house pa. 54 Licurgus appointed schoolemaisters in Sparta called Paedonomi pa. ead The lawe of the Brachmaines in India pa. 55 Orators and Poets contended in Greece 56 Of lawe-makers and magistrates in diuers countries pa. ead Bloud the first witnesse against murther pa. 57 Foure witnesses against murther pa. 58 The enuie of Saul towards Dauid pa. ead Punishment of murther by the law of nature before the lawe written pa. 59 Murtherers haue their markes pa 60 How Paracides were punished in Rome pa. 61 Bocchoris lawe in Egipt against murther pa. ead No lawe against Paracides neither by Romulus nor Solō pa. 62 Platos lawe against him that kild himselfe pa. 63 The punishment of murther in diuers countries pa. 64 Charondas lawe for pulling out ones eyes pa. ead The law of the 12. Tables imitated Moses law pa. 65 The Gentiles both allow confirme their lawes by Oracles pa. 67 Pentapolis destroyed for Sodomiticall sinne pa. 68 The Israelites punished for theyr sinne with the Moabite pa. ead Commendation of godly zeale pa. 69 Adultery punished in diuers countries pa. 70 Bocchoris lawe against adulterie pa. 71 Charondas lawe against adultery pa. ead Zaleucus lawes against adultery pa. 72 Punishment of adulterie by Aurelianus Macrinus both Emperors of Rome pa. ead The law of Solon called Paratilmus against adulterie pa. 73 The opinion of diuers Philosophers cōcerning adultery pa. 74 Moses law against bastards pa. 75 Lawes of diuers nations against bastards pa 76 Bocchoris lawe in Egipt for a woman with childe pa. 77 The lawe of the Unshod house pa. 78 Moses lawe against an adulteresse pa. ead Xerxes reward to inuent pleasures pa. 79 Commendation of chastitie pa 80 Leges conuiuales pa. 81 Platos lawe called Bellaris Platonis pa. ead Good lawes sent for frō one countrey to an other pa. 82. 83 Meanes made by the Gentiles to become chaste pa. 84 Examples of chastitie in good women pa. ead The harme that hapneth by too much libertie pa. 85 The offence of the eye pa. 86 The chastitie of the people named Animphi and Abij pa. 87 The lawe of the twelue Tables for chastitie pa. ead Continuance of lawes in all countries pa. 88 The Tabernacle hidden by leremie pa. 89 The care and diligence of a◅ nations in keeping theyr lawes pa. 90 Iudges appointed in all countreys to execute lawes pa. 91 Of counsell and gouernment of women pa. 92 The Athenians sent to Delphos pa. 93 Achan stoned to death for theft pa. 94 The punishment of the Lorde for breach of his lawes pa. ead The lawe of Zaleucus for breach of his lawe pa. 95 The seueritie of Lu. Papirius for breach of the lawe page 96 Diocles slew himselfe to satisfie the offenee hee did to his owne lawe pa. 97 Licurgus banished himselfe for continuance of his lawes pa. ead The credit of Aristotle and Pythagoras with their schollers pa. 98 The Israelites sacrificed theyr children to Moloch pa. ead All creatures obey the Lorde more then man the chiefe creature pa. 99 The fraude of Giezi plaine theft pa. ead The vision of the flying booke pa. 100 Foure great men that robd the Temple in Ierusalem pa. ead The lawe Plagium pa. 101 The lawe of the Phrigians against theft pa.
ead The lawes of Draco in Athens against theft pa. ead Bocchoris lawes in Egipt against theft pa. 102 Charondas lawe in fauour of Orphants pa. 103 Solons lawe in Athens for Orphants and Infants pa. ead The daughters of Zalphod restorea by Moses lawe to their fathers inheritance pa ead The effect of loue and praiers pa. 105 The effectes of lawes in inward and outward obedience pa. 106 The lawes of the 12. Tables against theft pa. 107 Iulius lawe against theft pa. ead Bocchoris lawe against theft pa. 108 Theft left vnpunished by Licurgus lawe pa. ead Bocchoris lawe against vsurie pa. ead Solons lawe against vsury called Sysacthia pa. 109 Lucullus and Cato banished vsurie pa. ead Moses lawe against vsury pa. 110 Solons lawe against slaunderers pa. ead Description of ill tongues page 111 The diuerse punishmeÌ„t of tongues pa. 112 Slaunderous tongues practised mischiefe pa. 113 A lawe in Athens against vngratefull men pa. 115 Diuers false Prophets reproued pa. 116 Naboth and Stephen stoned to death pa. 117 False witnesse against Christ himselfe pa. 118 Zaleucus lawe against false witnesse pa. ead The lawe of Bocchoris in Egipt against periurers pa. 119 Punishment of false witnes among the Turkes pa. ead The lawe of the twelue Tables against false witnesse page ead Diuers lawes against rebellious and trecherous seruants pa. 120. 121. 122 The law of the 12. Tables against staunderers pa. 123 Of the maner of swearing among the Hebrewes pa. 124 Of diuers ambitious men pa. 125. 126 The euill end of ambition pa. ead Zaleucus lawe against ambitious men pa. 127 Cincius lawe in Rome against ambition pa. 128 The lawe Ostracismus in Athens against ambition pa. 129 Ambitious kings in Egipt might not be buried pa. ead The Image of Iustice in Eliopolis pa. 130 Of the oaths of the kings of Mexico at their consecratioÌ„ pa. 131 The pride and insolencie of Xerxes and Antiochus pa 132 The lawe of Thrasibulus in Athens called Amnestia pa. ead The lawe Plebiscita pa. 133 The lawe of the Indian Philosophers pa. 136 Of liberties and freedomes in diuers countries pa. ead The first law of Romulus in Rome called Lex Curiata pa. 137 The second lawe in Rome called Senatus Consultus pa. ead What the Senators of Rome might do without the consent of the people pa. 138 Gracchus law in Rome called Lex Agraria pa. 139 Thirtie Senators in Carthage called Conipodes pa. 140 Aristocratia chaunged to Monarchia among the Hebrewes pa. ead Kings deposed in Sparta by the Ephori pa. 141 Platos lawe against curious men pa. ead Consuls remoued in Rome from their office by soothsayers pa 142 The lawe called Lex Auguralis pa. 143 FINIS Iob. 38. Iob. 25. The old Patriarkes liued vnder the law of nature 2. Cor 3. Iere. 31. The lawe of nature is a short repetition of the lawe written The lawe written and giuen to Moses Cic de leg lib. 1. Cic. de leg lib. 3. Cic. de diuini lib 1. Diod. sic lib. 2. cap. 5. Lex curiata Chiefe magistrates gouernors in diuers countries The Lord coÌ„maunded an aultar to bee made Exod. 20. Diuers aultars beâ—…ore the law written Septe longaeui Tylia otherwise called Phyllida Vlpian F. de leg 3. Rachel stole her father Labans Image Gen. 31. Gen. 35. The Image of Belus made by his sonne Ninus Ieroboam made two golden calues Israel made a god of mettall while Moses was with the Lord for the lawe Deut. 9. Num. 25. 4. Regâ—… Socreates poisoned in Athens for religion Platoes opinion of Poets Painters Ioseph lib. 2. contra Apion 〈◊〉 Alcibiades 〈◊〉 ed from Athens Cloâ—…ius slaine in Rome Anacharsis slaine Ioseph lib. 2. contra Apion Paul 〈◊〉 ad Rom. Hermes in Poemand Plato in Phaed. The Romains vowe Grecians Vowes of the Gentiles to their gods Persâ—… Xerxes burnt the Temples in Greece Cic. de legib lib. 2. â—…em 1â—… The Rechabites lawes Ahiahs speech to Ieroboam Deut. 32 Deut. 38. Hose 10. Zeleueus first lawes to the Locreans Diod. sic li. 12. Cic. de leg 1. Licurgus lawe that no stranger should dwell in Sparta Anaxagoras put to death Ioseph lib. 2. contra Apion Iudic. 6. Protagoras Diod. sic lib. 2. Diagoras TalentuÌ„ Atticum Cic. de natura deor lib. 1. Val. Max. de peregrin religione cap. 3. Cyrus confessed the god which the lewes worshipped 1. Eldr. 〈◊〉 Artax Nabuchodonozer Darius made a lawe that all dominions should feare the god of Daniel Agrippa Ioseph de antiq li. 19. ca. 7. Egipt the mother of all Idolatrie Dioâ—…ic lib. 2. Ioseph lib 2. conâ—… Apion Gode c. â—…n li. 2. Viget cap. 1. The Iewes obserued straitly their lawes Alex. Neapolit genial lib. 5 cap. 24. Diuers tooke vpon theÌ„ to be the Mesias Ioseph de Antiquit. lib. 20. cap 5. Torquinius Three hundred aureos Idolatrous sacrifice of the Gentiles No bloud offered in sacrifice by Licurgus lawe Cic. de leg lib 2. Arist lib. 5. polit cap. 11. Paul called Spermologos in Athens Deut. 17. 2. Reg. 21. Moloches 7. chambers Hose 10. Punishment of corrupt Iudges in Persia. Psal. 25. Law turned to wormewood c. Amos. 4. Arist. Rhet. 1. cap. 3. The lawe of the Lord set down by Esay the Prophet Esai 〈◊〉 Deut. 7. Exod. 22. Plato polit Wicked answers of kingsâ—… Ashuerus Darius Iezabels lawe for Naboths vineyard Lysander and Pompeys speech to a Lawier â—…ammius gladâ—…us Plato in Alcibiad Leuit. 13. Alex. Neapo lit gnial lib. 4. â—…a 7. Ceremoniall lawes of the Gentiles The Gentiles builded diuers temples to their gods Exod. 40. The maner of the Gentiles in dedicating their temples c. Alex. Neapo lit li. 6. cap 14. Alex. Neapo lit genial lib. 4 cap. 17. The consecration of Aaron Leuit. 8. By what authorities all nations confirmed their lawes Diod. sic lib 2. cap. 4. Plut. in Sylla The straight obseruation of the Sabboth by the Iewes Exod. 16. Luk. 23. Iohn 19. The second building of the temple by Cyrus 1. Esdr. 1. Darius Artaxerxes Neomenia The Romains Sabboths Parthians The diuers kinds of Sabboths among the Heathens Heredot lib. 6 Phillip The blasphemy of Nicanor Ioseph lib. 11. cap. 8. Ioseph lib. 12. cap 3. Certaine Romanes slaine by the Iewes Ioseph lib. 20. cap. 4. 1. Machab. 2. Plut. in Pomp. The lawe of Iud. Machaâ—… Math. 12. Among the Heathens the Sabboth of the Lord was not knowne Liui 〈◊〉 Thueyd 1. Xenoph. de expedit Cyri. 3. Plut. in Alex. Licurgus lawe for time of battell Front lib. 2. cap. 1. Before y temple was made in Ierusalem the Israelites came to Siloh Esay 45. The continuance of Licurgus lawes Charondas lawes against those that disobeyed contemned lawes Licurgus law Rheâ—…ra Plut. in Licurgo The lawe of the 12. tables Hipocrates in praecepâ—… Cicero de leg 2. Cic. de diuin lib. 1. Cic. de leg lib. 3. Alex. Neapolit genial lib. 6 cap. 23. Ioseph lib. 4. cap. 8. The diuers orders of appeales among
the Heathens Alex. Neapolit genial lib. 3 cap. 16. Ioseph lib. 4. cap. 8. The wise and graue Iudges in diuers countries Diod. sic lib. 2. cap. 3. Exod. 20. Lawes of all natioÌ„s against disobedient children Deut. 21. Esau. Gen. 27. Gen 31. The corruption of Iudges Ophnes and Phinees Good parents haue ill children 1. Reg. 16. 1. Reg. 24. The care of the Hebrues to keepe Moses lawe Deut. 6. Godese lib. 2. cap. 6. Alex. Neapolit lib. 6. cap. 14 Platoes lawe Markes of monuments and couenants by Ioshua Iacob and Samuel Gent. 31. The care of the Kings of Persia to bring vp their children Charondas lawe sxr education of children Plato in Alcibiad Alex. Neapol lib. 6. cap. 25. Nehemiae cap. 8. 10. Plato Anacharsis order for the youth in Greece Ioseph lib. 10. cap. 11. The Romanes care for theyr children Cic. de diuin 1. Charondas lawe Bocchoris lawes The care of the Hebrew women in naming and in nursing their children Iacob Iob. Dauid Phillip Agamemnon Antigonus Troglodites called Antinomi The carelesse nature of the Troglodites Atlantes for their children Atlantes called Anomi Manlius remoued from the Senate house Epicarmus punished Eccle. 30. Licurgus appointed schoole maisters in Spartâ—… called Paedonomi The lawe of the Brâ—…chmanes for their children in India Orators and Poets contended in Greece The names of lawe makers magistrates in diuers couÌ„tries Gene. 4. Blood the first witnesse against murther C ham was accursed Deut. 1â—… The second murtherer in scripture Gene. 27. Ioseph threatned to be killed Foure witnesses against murtherers Iacob fledde from Esau. The enuie of Saul towards Dauid Three kindes of murther 3. Reg 21. Iob. 20. Psal. 93. Math. 2. Sap. 6. 2. Reg. 11. Punishment vpon Cain and others by the law of nature Esd. li. 4. ca. 16. Murtherers haue theyr markes How Paracides were punished in Rome Alex. Neapol Genial lib. 3. cap. 5. Bocchoris lawes in Egipt for murther Diod. sic lib. 2. No law made against Paracides neither by Romulus nor Solon Platoeslaw for the man that kild himselfe Caligula Oros. li. 7. ca 5 Oros. lib. 3. cap. 10. Diuers horrible murtherers punished Charondas lawe Exod. 21. The law of the 12. Tables like Moses lawe Andronicus killed Zimri 3. Reg. 15. Zellum 4. Reg. 15. Curtis 9. Vopisc in Aurel Saul Absolon Plut. in Numa The Gentiles confirm their lawes by authoritie of Oracles from their gods The fiue cities called Pentapolis destroyed The Israelites plagued for their sin with the Moabites Nomb. 13. 4. Reg. 10. The commendation and reward of godly zeale Ephes. cap. 6. Example of adultery in diuers countries punished Gen. 1â—… Iudic. 19. Gen. 34. Lawes in diuers countries against adultery Bocchoris lawe against adultery Charondas lawe against adultery Arist. 5. polit Demosthenes aduersus Leptin Plato de leg Zaleucus lawes against adultery Fla. vobise in Aureliano Punishment of adultery by Aurelianus and Macrinus both Emperors of Rome Capitolin in vita Macrini Time hath euer bene appointed for godly men to effect theyr purpose The lawe Paratilmus against adultry The opinion of diuers Philosophers concerning adultery Alex. Neapol lib. 1. cap. 24. Diod. sic lib. 2. cap. 6. Moses lawe against bastardâ—… Gen. 49. Gen. 30. Lawe of nature Gen. 3â—… Leuit. 19. Lawes of nations against bastards Deut. 22. Deut. 22. Bocchoris law for a woman with childe Exod. 21. The lawe of the vnshod house Deut. 25. The lawe of Moses against an adulteresse Cortini Pisidae Casaluion Summaenium Xerxes offred rewards to inuent pleasures Laert. in Solone Haniball Scypio Commendation of chastitie Alexander Dioclesian Sext. Ruffinus Front lib. 4. cap. 1. L. Consensu C. de repud lib. 1. cap. 2. Leges conuiuales Sapien. 2. Vertuous and good lawes were so honored that they were sent for froÌ„ one countrey to an other Philadelphus Ioseph lib. 12 cap. 2. Alex. Neapol genial lib. 4. cap. 7. Sinister means of the Gentiles to become chaste Toby 3. Examples of chastitie in good women Iedith 10. 1â—… Neomâ—…nia Prou 7. The harme that hapneth by too much libertie Prou. 6. Gene. 12. The offence of the eye Math. 14. Aqua Mercurij Mary Magdalene People called Animphi and Abij Gymnosophists The lawe of 12. tables for chastitie Deut. 23. Val. Max. li. 6. cap. 1. Cic. de leg 3. Continuance of lawes in all countries Ioseph lib. 1. ca. 3. de Antiq. The Tabernacle hidden by Ieremy 2. Macab 2. Egiptians Lacedemonians The care and diligence of all nations in keeping their lawes Alex. Neapol genial lib. 3. cap. 16. Athenians Chron. Turcor Arist. Rhet. 1. cap. 3. Iudges appointed in all countries to execute lawes Of counsell and gouernment of women Aristot. 〈◊〉 polit â—…ap 7. Plato in Alcib Alex. Neapol lib. cap. 3. Cic. de leg lib. 2. The Athenians sent to Delphos Leuit. 19. Achan stoned to death for theft Ioshua 7. 3. Reg. 13. Num. 15. The law of the Lorde for breach of his lawes Malac. 1. Nadab and Abihu The lawe of Zaleucus for breach of the lawe Thueyd lib. 6. August apud Dyon 3. The seueritie of L. Papirius for breach of the lawe Front li. 4. ca. 1 Plato de Rep. 5. Diocles lawe Diocles killed himselfe to satisfie his owne lawe Licurgus banished himselfe The credit of Pythagoras and Aristotle with theyr schollers Plato de Rep. 5. The Israelites sacrificed their children to Moloch 3. Reg. 1â—… Luk. 8. The disobedience of man against God Psal. 141. Cic. de leg 3. Liui. lib. 6. The fraud of Giezi plainâ—… theft Leuit. 19. The vision of the flying booke Zaâ—…h 5. Cato Censorius de re militari Foure that robd the temple Cic. de natura deor lib 3. Dyonisius A lawe called Plagium The seuere lawes of the Phrygians against theft The lawes of Draco in Athens against theft The lawe of Bocchoris in Egipt against theft Diod. sic lib. 2. cap. 3. Exod. 22. Bocchoris lawe against theft Deut. 19. Charondas lawe in fauour of Orphants Solons law for Orphants and Infants Alex. Neapol lib. 6. cap. 10. The daughters of Zalphod restored to their fathers inheritance Nomb 27. Voconius law Alex. Neapol lib. 6. cap. 15. Exod. 32. Effect of loue and praiers Gen. 18. Gen. 22. Gen. 13. Gen. 3. Cic. de finibus 5. The effects of lawes in inward and outward obedience Edictum principis The lawe of the 12. Tables against theft An other lawâ—… of the twelue Tables Exod. 22. Iulius lawe against theft Bocchoris lawes Theft left vnpunished by Licurgus lawe Bocchoris law against vsurie Illiad 1. Solons lawe against vsurie called Sysacthia Diod. sic lib. 2 cap. 3. Zeteta Solons lawe Lucullus and Caro bannished vsurie Alex. Neapol lib. 1. cap. 7. Licurgus Moses lawe against vsurie Deut. 23. Math. 18. Solons lawe against nick-names Catapygos Obscessor viaâ—…um Bocchoris law Leuit. 19. Psal. 33. Xenoph. 1. Paed. Iames cap. 3. Pro. 13. Platoes lawe Suet. in Augusto Achisophel Slanderous tongues practised mischief Tacit. 1. annal Pleto de Repub 5. Cic. pro Milone Cic. de leg lib. 1. Alex. Neapolit 5. cap. 1. Plato in 〈◊〉 Deut. 19. Prou. 19. 24. Psal. 101. Deut. 27. Diuers false Prophets of Baal reproued by Michaeas and Elias 80. of Baals Priests reproued Suzanna Naboth stoned to death by false witnes Stephen the first martyr Paul Act. 24. False witnesse against Christ our sauiour Mar. Cato Aristophantes Zaleucus lawe against false witnesse Bocchoris law Diod. fic lib. 2. cap. 3. Alex Neapol lib. cap. 10. The Turkes punishment of false witnes The lawe of the 12. Tables Indians Lawes against rebellious seruants Alex Neapol lib. 3. cap. 20. Paucicapa a kind of punishment Cic. ad Attic. Epist. 1. Licurgus lawâ—… Plut. in Alex. Alex. Neapol lib. 6. cap. 14. Hilotae Arist lib. 5. Polit cap. 11. 〈◊〉 Deut. 19. The lawe of the 12. tables against slaunderers Alex Neapolit 6. cap. 10. Leuit. 9. Oathes Of oathes Amos. 8. Gen. 24. Of the maner of oathes among the Hebrewes Gen. 27. Gen. 22. 1. Reg. 25. 3. Reg. 17. Galath 1. Coloss. 1. Plato de leg lib. 12. The pride of Ammon Abimelech Absolon Many great meÌ„ ambitious The nature of ambition Iudic. 9. The end of ambitious meÌ„ Plato de leg 9. Stobaeus Sermo Numb 16. Numb 12. Zaleucus law against ambitious men The lawe Petalismus against ambitious men Cai. Petilius Cincius lawes against ambition in Rome Alex. Neapol lib. 4. cap. 3. Cie de leg li. 3 Arist lib. 3. polit cap. 〈◊〉 The lawe Ostracismus in Athens against ambitious Arist. 5 poliâ—… cap. 11. Amzitious kings of Egipt might not be buried Diod. sic lib. 〈◊〉 cap. 3. The lawe of the people Pedalij to iustice Alex. Neapol lib. 6. cap. 17. Appollonius and Socrates wishes The Image of Iustice c. The picture of ambition without legs Cic. proplanâ—… Luk 17. Sebna Achab. Nimrod Plato in Apol. The pride and ambition of Antiochus Ammon Hercules Achilles The lawe of Thrasibulus in Athens called Amnestia Alex Neapol lib. 6. cap. 23. Draco strangled in Egina Perillus died by those torments which he inuented Arist. polit lib. 3. cap. 3. Tib. Caesar. Tacit. 1. Annal. Lamp in Alex. Lamp in Alex The lawe of the Indian Philosophers Diod. sic lib. 3. Alex. Neapolit lib. 4. ca. 10. The first lawe of Romulus called Lex Curiata The second lawe in Rome called Senatus Consultus Plato Plyni Paneg. Alex. Neapol lib 4. cap. 11. Illiad 1. Alex. Neapol lib. 6. cap. 14. What the Senators might do without the people Plut. in Pomp. Gracchus law called Lex agraria Platos lawes 28. Senators in Sparta 30. Senators of Carthage called Conipodes Aristocratia changed to Menarchia 〈◊〉 Sam. cap. 8. Kings deposed in Sparta by the Ephori Platos lawe Cic de diuin lib. 1. Consuls remoued in Rome from their office Lex Auguralis Alex. Neapol lib. 5. cap. 19. Leuit. 19. Cic. de diuin lib. 2. Diod. sic lib. 3. cap. 10. Cic de diuin lib. 1. Tacit. annal 3