I will require] That is, the Magistrate my deputie shall require bloud for bloud; or if he doe not know or punish homicide or manslaughter, some hand of violence like that of the manslayer shall repay him like for like; or mine eye shall discover it, and mine owne immediate hand avenge it: See Exodus 21:12. Leviticus 24:17. Numb. 35. from vers. 16. to the 19. Deuteronomy 19:21. Ezekiel 35:6. Matthew 26:52. Revelation 13:10. See also Joseph. Antiq. lib. 1. cap. 4. but especially Philip Lonicerus Theat. Hist. a pag. 392. ad pag. 513. at the hand of every beast] A man commonly when he killeth another useth his hand to that wicked worke, so that which other creatures use in stead of an hand is figuratively called by that name; so the Spider is said to take hold with her hands, Proverbs 30:28. And the beast must be put to death to put a feare of murder upon man, as the Dog beaten before the Lion to make him afraid: See Exodus 21:28. every mans brother] The former prohibition is a preparative to this, the moderation towards beasts that were to be killed by abstinence from their bloud prescribed by God, Leviticus 17:14. was to be restraint of cruelty towards man, whose life was more pretious, since he was made after the Image of God; see vers. 6. and this an universall Law inforced with an impartiall penaltie, death for death, bloud for bloud, whosoever he be that sheddeth it without just cause and lawfull warrant.