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a denunciation or indiction of a war, the war is no 

 more confined to the place of the quarrel, but is 

 left at large and to choice, as to the particular 

 conducing designs, as opportunities and advantages 

 shall invite. 



To proceed therefore to the second ground of a 

 war with Spain, we have set it down to be, a just 

 fear of the subversion of our civil estate. So then, 

 the war is not for the Palatinate only, but for 

 England, Scotland, Ireland, our king, our prince, 

 our nation, all that we have. Wherein two things 

 are to be proved : The one, that a just fear, without 

 an actual invasion or offence, is a sufficient ground of 

 a war, and in the nature of a true defensive : the 

 other, that we have towards Spain cause of just fear; 

 I say, just fear : for as the civilians do well define, 

 that the legal fear is &quot;Justus metus qui cadit in 

 &quot; constantem virum&quot; in private causes : so there is 

 &quot; Justus metus qui cadit in constantem senatum, in 

 &quot; causa publica ;&quot; not out of umbrages, light jea 

 lousies, apprehensions afar off, but out of clear fore 

 sight of imminent danger. 



Concerning the former proposition, it is good to 

 hear what time saith. Thucydides, in his induce 

 ment to his story of the great war of Peloponnesus, 

 sets down in plain terms, that the true cause of that 

 war was the overgrowing greatness of the Athenians, 

 and the fear that the Lacedaemonians stood in there 

 by ; and doth not doubt to call it, a necessity im 

 posed upon the Lacedaemonians of a war ; which 

 are the words of a mere defensive : adding, that 



