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have leave, especially in the mending of a proposition, 

 which was mine own, to remember an omission which 

 is more than a misplacing. For I doubt we ought 

 to have added or inserted into the point of lawfulness, 

 the question, how far an holy war is to be pursued, 

 whether to displanting and extermination of people ? 

 And again, whether to enforce a new belief, and to 

 vindicate or punish infidelity ; or only to subject the 

 countries and people ; and so by the temporal sword 

 to open a door for the spiritual sword to enter, by 

 persuasion, instruction, and such means as are proper 

 for souls and consciences ? But it may be, neither is 

 this necessary to be made a part by itself; for that 

 Zebedasus, in his wisdom, will fall into it as an inci 

 dent to the point of lawfulness, which cannot be 

 handled without limitations and distinctions. ZEBE- 

 D^EUS. You encourage me, Eupolis, in that I per 

 ceive, how in your judgment, which I do so much 

 esteem, 1 ought to take that course, which of myself 

 I was purposed to do. For as Martins noted well, 

 that it is but a loose thing to speak of possibilities, 

 without the particular designs ; so is it to speak of 

 lawfulness without the particular cases. I will 

 therefore first of all distinguish the cases ; though 

 you shall give me leave, in the handling of them, not 

 to sever them with too much preciseness ; for both 

 it would cause needless length ; and we are not now 

 in arts or methods, but in a conference. It is there 

 fore first to be put to question in general, as Eupolis 

 propounded it, whether it be lawful for Christian 

 princes or states to make an invasive war, only and 



