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Show ... of War 4tUl Peate in behalf of God, and is to be refened to the vengeance referved to God;) and that revenoe for pri\rate fati sfa&ion · which b~ forbad in the former wo~ds. For, if you will have that venaea. nce alio whi~h is expeCted fo~ the ·pubtike good, comp:chencled in that. in] ntcrdi&, what -wrll be more abturd, than for the Apofl:le, when he had faid we mufl: abH:ain from capital judge· mertts, pr<!fent!y . t? adde, The publi~e powers are 1 ordamed of God for th1s e~d, to cxa:a p~n~il1ments i~ his ~ead ? XXV • 1 he Ji ft ,,ftxt .and fevet#h Obje~ ftions' anfwered. fi-te.fif"t place ~hich fo.me make u[e of . ' is in the fccond Ep1Hle to t~e Co· ·."Cor.to.3'4' rtnthia1!s: Though wee walk_. tn the • Chryfo!to- fi~fh ,- we drJ -not War after the .fiefh: ~s ~(1~ loco for the wedpons of our warfare are no: ~.m:lllglt,ope$, * carnal, but mighty through God to ~'::::z~:~.~~n: the pulling down o.fftrong-holds., &c. But ti4tlll, f n!trtia, this place makes nothing to the matter. ~~'ionu,a(- For both the antecedents and confe· l•~iDllls,{al- quents do iliew, that by the name of WJM. ftefh,• P aut undedl:ands ~ere the weak (onft\tution of body, whtch came ~n~ der their eyes, and in refpe.St of -wh1ch he was contemned. Hereunto Paul op· pofeth his weapons, that is, the powe: oiven him as an Apo!.He, to fubdue the ~efraCtory: fuch as he u[ed upon EtyrnaJ, upon 7!Je Plrjl 4-i tlpon the incefiuous Corinthian, upon Hymene_111 a':ld .Alexander. This power, he fa1th, 1s not carnal, that is weak. h ,. • \ yea on t e contrary, he afferteth it to be moll mighty.\Vhat is this to the right of capital punilhments,or of War? Yea o!l our fide, becauie the Church at tha~ t.tme was de!litute of ayd from the pub. hck powers, ~herfore had God raifed up. for .her defcnfe, that prodigious power, 'Yhich began afterward to fail about the t1me when Chritlian Emperours were gi• •en the Church, even as Manna ceafed when t.heHcbrew people were come int~ the frmtful Land. That which is alleged E h 1 . , flxdy,out of the Epitllc to the Ephefians' p • ' 11 • Put~~~ the whole .Armour of Goa' tha; 1'' may he ahle to ftand againft the wile~ of the devi/.for we wreftle not ilg ainft flefh andhloud, (fupply, only, after the He· brewphrafe) !Jut Againft principalitin &c. This place, I fay, fpeaks of th; fight which belongs to ChrifHans as they are . Chritlians, not ' which 'they may have common with other men upon cert~in . occafions • The place of }ahmes which lS urged, feventhly, From Jm .•. r; w entetome Wars and fightings amon you f come theJ not hence even or J :f lujf1 ~httt WAr in jour mt,;,hers?&~ ..;:.r ~~nWs nothin,g univerfal: only it faiths fl d H ars and nghts,whereby the difper~ dalhc~brews:were at that time miferably . tO pieces • and be:uen one by · E another |
