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JAY TO JOHN MURRAY, JUN. 413 enable the several temporal rulers of the states and kingdoms of this world to maintain their authority and protect themselves and their people ; and our Saviour expressly declared that if his kingdom had been of this world, then would his servants fight to protect him ; or, in other words, that then, and in that case, he would not have restrained them from fighting. The lawfulness of such fighting, therefore, instead of being denied, is admitted and confirmed by that declaration. This exposition coincides with the answer given by John the Baptist (who was "filled with the Holy Ghost") to the soldiers who asked him what they should do, viz. : " Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely, and be content with your wages." Can these words be rationally understood as meaning that they should receive wages for nothing; or that, when ordered to march against the enemy, they should refuse to proceed ; or that, on meeting the enemy, they should either run away, or passively submit to be captured or slaughtered ? This would be attaching a meaning to his answer very foreign to the sense of the words in which he expressed it. Had the gospel regarded war as being in every case sinful, it seems strange that the apostle Paul should have been so unguarded as, in teaching the importance of faith, to use an argument which clearly proves the lawfulness of war, viz.: " That it was through faith that Gideon, David, and others waxed valiant in fight, and turned to flight the armies of aliens"; thereby confirming the declaration of David,
Title | The correspondence and public papers of John Jay - 4 |
Creator | Jay, John |
Publisher | G.P. Putnam's Sons |
Place of Publication | New York, London |
Date | [1890-93] |
Type | Books/Pamphlets |
Title | 00000440 |
Type | Books/Pamphlets |
Transcript | JAY TO JOHN MURRAY, JUN. 413 enable the several temporal rulers of the states and kingdoms of this world to maintain their authority and protect themselves and their people ; and our Saviour expressly declared that if his kingdom had been of this world, then would his servants fight to protect him ; or, in other words, that then, and in that case, he would not have restrained them from fighting. The lawfulness of such fighting, therefore, instead of being denied, is admitted and confirmed by that declaration. This exposition coincides with the answer given by John the Baptist (who was "filled with the Holy Ghost") to the soldiers who asked him what they should do, viz. : " Do violence to no man, neither accuse any falsely, and be content with your wages." Can these words be rationally understood as meaning that they should receive wages for nothing; or that, when ordered to march against the enemy, they should refuse to proceed ; or that, on meeting the enemy, they should either run away, or passively submit to be captured or slaughtered ? This would be attaching a meaning to his answer very foreign to the sense of the words in which he expressed it. Had the gospel regarded war as being in every case sinful, it seems strange that the apostle Paul should have been so unguarded as, in teaching the importance of faith, to use an argument which clearly proves the lawfulness of war, viz.: " That it was through faith that Gideon, David, and others waxed valiant in fight, and turned to flight the armies of aliens"; thereby confirming the declaration of David, |
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