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forcement of consciences, or the like extremies ; or 

 how to be moderated and limited ; lest whilst we 

 remember we are Christians, we forget that others 

 are men ? But there is a point that precedeth all 

 these points recited ; nay, and in a manner dis- 

 chargeth them, in the particular of a war against the 

 Turk : which point, I think, would not have come 

 into my thought, but that Martius giving us yester 

 day a representation of the empire of the Turks, 

 with no small vigour of words, which you, Pollio, 

 called an invective, but indeed a true charge, did put 

 me in mind of it : and the more I think upon it, the 

 more I settle in opinion, that a war to suppress that 

 empire, though we set aside the cause of religion, 

 were a just war. After Zebedseus had said this, he 

 made a pause, to see whether any of the rest would 

 say any thing : but when he perceived nothing but 

 silence, and signs of attention to that he would far. 

 ther say, he proceeded thus : 



ZEBED^US. Your lordships will not look for a 

 treatise from me, but a speech of consultation ; and 

 in that brevity and manner will I speak. First, I 

 shall agree, that as the cause of a war ought to be 

 just, so the justice of that cause ought to be evident; 

 not obscure, not scrupulous. For by the consent of 

 all laws, in capital causes, the evidence must be full 

 and clear : and if so where one man s life is in 

 question, what say we to a war, which is ever the 

 sentence of death upon many ? We must beware 

 therefore how we make a Moloch, or an heathen 

 idol, of our blessed Saviour, in sacrificing the blood 



