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Show ·Luke u.3~. of W4r i;u1 'Puce fef.m to have made the·r jot:unys ar· med wit 1 the · fword : and .that other Galileans travellmg out of their C ountry toward the City did the lame, by reafQ.n of danger on the way from Robbers~ we 'earu out of Jojephm; VVho hath aJfo deliver'd the iame of the Ef(( nes, men mofi in,nocertt and harm!efs. Hence it was, that when Chrifl laid, the time w.M at hand, when he char wanted a Sword Jhould fell his gar· roent .and buy o_ne, prefently the Apolles an!wer'd ( for there were none but Apofl:es in that Company : ) they had ar;nono tbem two Swords. Moreover, that ~hich Chrifl: iaid, although in truth it contetns not any precept, but is a provetb, fignifyinr; very great danoers to be at hand, as appears plain· ly by the oppofition of the fir(l time, which was iafe and profperous; yer i~ it filch, as is · manifefl:ly taken fiOm tbe ufual cu!tom, ~nd which the Apo· files efieemed lawful . .And furery it 'Were n1t lawful to have Swords (they a.re the words ofCicero)J_f it be not law· ful in any wife tiJ malz! J;Je of them. XXXVI. The ObjeilionJ an[wered. THat precept of Chrifi , not to re· fill him that doth in jury, is not m~re ~niyerfal, than that whkh follows, Gtve to everl ~n~ that t~~k;th: which yet a~· · mru mits of an exception ;- So that our fel ves be not tov much burthened : yea, t<;> that precept of giving, no reflritlion is added, but it is rcflrained only by tbe fenfe of equity, whereas the precept of not rejifting hath its explication adjoynea by the example of a b!mv on th~ cheek._; that we may underfiand our (elves to be then precile!y bound, in ca(e the injuryoffer'd us be either a blow on the cheek, or equal 'to it ; for otherwife it had been fitter to fay, Rejift not the in;uriom, but rather lo[.e your life, than tt Je your ttrms. In the words to the Romans, Avm.r_e not your [elves : for fo it is, (not Defend not your felvo :) • ;x.n~.;,; as the * word is ufed in other places, J Judath s.& and here the connexion manifdHy ~~·ke 1 s.1 ,t. lhews: The words are thefe, Recom- u.u. penfe to no man evil for evil:a defcdption 2. Thef.1.t. of revenge, not of defenfe, this. And J Per.s.14. 'P flHI fu pporrs his precept with a pl~ce RoTmh.lf.3·4· of .D euteroHomy, rr re ngeance u· mm. e, I I e ·4·6• ll wzl/ repay: where the word in Hebrew, tranflated flengeance, hath properly that fi~nificati?n, and.,thefenfe of the place w1l1. admit no other. That fpeech of .• ~ • Chnfi to Peter, comain5 indeed a pro~ libition ?f uling the Sword, but no~ m the cafe of defenle: neither had he / any need to defend him {elf: for 'ChriH had f poken on behalf. of his Difciples : · Suffer tl~e[e to go away: that his Jaying . '"'Iht hefulfill~d; Oftho{t whom th~u Jo.JS.~~g~ haft |
