sell him] Men, especially captives taken in warre, were in many countreys sold upon a price, as cattell were, and therefore the servant is called the masters money, Exodus 21:21. and because he was his money, if he corrected him so cruelly that he dyed within a day or two after, his master was not to be punished for it. See the place forecited. In after times such as were taken in warre, and might in warre have been killed, remained in the power of their Saviours (for so are men sometimes called, 2 Kings 13:5. Nehem. 9. 27.) for their lives, and for all hard usages on this side death; but against this tyranny, especially among Christians, there have been many both Ecclesiasticall, and secular prohibitions, as against a practice both irreligious, and inhumane.