.nprm the Epiftle of J A M B s. VEil S.I. - ~ • 6. -·unbelief,felf,.;ft:ekitig;carnal policy: as foon as you purpofe to repent, _beleeve,pray, thefe are ready to hinder you,to difl:ratl: you,that you cannot do the things that you would: · Nay the fl elh fometimes . :tufl:eth againft the · fldh; fin is a burthenfom Task-mafter , it .commandeth contrary things·: How often is a man divided be:– tween his pomp and, his fp.aring? his- lttxmy and his covetoufne[s? 2. Itwarreth again{hhe Soul; I Pet.z. 11. Abflain froJl'fiefhly lufls, Which War againft the Soul: You carry an eneryly in your own boforns, which defaceeh the beauty, difiurbeth theorder, and inthralleth the liberty of the Soul : In fread of Gods image there -i3 Satans liken~s, and in ·flead o£ fubjection to Reafon there is the rebellion of appetite and vile affc~ions ;' in fread of freedom for Righteoufnefs, there is afad bondage which we may difcover, but cannot help. · Before I go off from tfiis Verfe, I muO: handle two Q!!_efrions; one is concerning outward wars, and the other concerning ii'J– wPlrd. 421 . r. Cl")ncerning outward ·Wars: The Apofiles fpeech is indifi- !2J!.efl. 1. nice; and at firfi feemech to condemn all Wars, as ifthe}"-were ofa bafe original and defcent, of the· lineage ·of lufi ; therefore I thall fnquire whether any Wars are lawful or no? B~Gdes the infimution (')f the Text, a further caufeof doub-ting is theun[uicableners of \ it to a Chrifl:ian fpirit, it being the moll: dreadful way of retalilting and revenging wrongs, which is contrary to Chrillianicy, and a courfe not only quefiioned-by fome modern Anabapcifts, but by Antiquity it [elf: The eleventh Canon of eh~ Nicene Councel in- ~ joynech pennance to them that take up Arms after their Converfion to Chrifl:ianity : And to this very day 'cis decryed by the whole Socinian School, as contrary tq Evangelical Mtekne(s and Pl tience ; ) and that cour(e of defence which Chrift hath infiituted, to wit, .. ..Martyrdom, or !bedding of our own.blood, not fpilling that of others. . ' · I anfwer.-brid:1y : 1. There is nothing in Scripture exprefly a– gainfl: it,nothing hue ftrained confe:qtiencc:s,as that of Ml1lt.) ·43A4• - concerning love ofenemies, which is forced;- for nothing is there commanded, but what is commanded in the Old Teframent; now · there ~ars are appr9ved, yea .ippoini ed by G d ; and that faying ) of Clmfi co.nce~_neth l?rivate perfons, to~biddtng private revenge, pa~on~ ~~q a~unof!~1e~; .i\ndfo 11 cwH-: ,lf.tt. 5. 39· where we . · H h 3 - _ . . -are
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