OF A WAR WITH SPAIN. 



at that time in league with the Romans, to join with 

 him in war against them, setteth before him a just 

 fear of the overspreading greatness of the Romans, 

 comparing it to a fire that continually took, and 

 spread from kingdom to kingdom : &quot; Venire Ro- 

 &quot; manos ad omnia regna tollenda, ut nullum usquam 

 &quot; orbis terrarum nisi Romanum imperium esset ; 

 &quot; Philippum et Nabin expugnatos, se tertium peti ; 

 * c ut quisque proximus ab oppresso sit, per omnes 

 &quot; velut continens incendium pervasurum :&quot; &quot; That 

 &quot; the Romans came to pull down all kingdoms, and 

 &quot; to make the state of Rome an universal monarchy ; 

 &quot; that Philip and Nabis were already ruinated, and 

 &quot; now was his turn to be assailed : so that as every 

 &quot; state lay next to the other that was oppressed, so 

 &quot; the fire perpetually grazed.&quot; Wherein it is well 

 to be noted, that towards ambitious states, which 

 are noted to aspire to great monarchies, and to 

 seek upon all occasions to enlarge their dominions, 

 &quot; crescunt argumenta justi metus ;&quot; all particular 

 fears do grow and multiply out of the contemplation 

 of the general courses and practice of such states. 

 Therefore in deliberations of war against the Turk, 

 it hath been often, with great judgment, maintained, 

 that Christian princes and states have always a suffi 

 cient ground of invasive war against the enemy ; not 

 for cause of religion, but upon a just fear ; forasmuch 

 as it is a fundamental law in the Turkish empire, 

 that they may, without any other provocation, make 

 war upon Christendom for the propagation of their 

 law ; so that there lieth upon the Christians a per- 



