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# Title: The Questions Concerning Liberty, Necessity, And Chance (shelfmark Leibn. Marg. 163)
# Folio 277, page id 1030877386:0277
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ansiver to this Xumber 25. Tfind nothine alledeed in confutation
os any thine i bave said, savine ehat bis last vordsare, that
T. EI. is miltaten, in chac aIso, chac cheristie ro rillmen, doch
proceed meerly Fromtheir beins noxious, Numb. IA. BuI +o
that P have inche same Numb. 24. already ansivered Tmust
not passe over, that a litile besore, he haththese vords. TF a Child
besore he harechepse of reason Mall kill a man in hris paMion.
vec becanse he manced malice to incire himcoic, and reasonto
rettrain himfrom ic, he Ballnoc dye for ic, in che Ariet rules
ot particular Julcice, unlesse chere De lome mixture ot publique
sustice in che case. The Bisop mould mate bur an ill fnace o)
innceent Children, (for suchare rhey chat for mant of ase bave
not use enouch of reason to abstain fromkillins) for the mant of
reason procecdins from mant of ase, does cherefore rale amay the
punistment because it taketh avay the orime, and makes them in.
nocent. But heintroduceth another Fustice Which he callethDu-
blick, Whereas he called the other parricular; and by this publicte
fustice, he saith the Child thonchinnocent may be put to death.
Lhope me Bali never have the administration of publicle fustice,
in such hands as his, or in the hands of such as sall rale conn’el
from him. But the distinction he mates is not by himsels under-
steod. There are publick causes and private causes, private are
those, rhere the parties to thecanse, are bochprivare men. Pu
blick are those, Where one of the parries is the C’ommen. mealth, or
the person that representeth it, and the cause criminal. But there
is no distinction of Justice into Publice. and Private. We may
reade of men that havine soverain Pover, did sometimes put an
Innocent to death, eithernpon a vom, as Tepehah did, in sacrifi-
eins bisDanchrer; or When it hath been thonshe fir thas an innocent
person Bould bepur to deathen save a creat number of people. BuI
20 put to death a Child noc for reason of. State, Which he improperly
calls Publicte Justice, but for tilling a man, and at the same
time to actnomledre such killins to be no crime, Lthint mas never
heard es.