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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A31853	A sermon preached before the Artillery-Company of London at St. Mary-le-Bow, December 2, 1684, and now published at their desire by Benjamin Calamy ...	Calamy, Benjamin, 1642-1686.	1685 (1685)	Wing C220; ESTC R5768	14,741	33

A SERMON Preached before the Artillery-Company OF LONDON AT St Mary-le-Bow DECEMBER 2 1684. And now Published at their desire By BENJAMIN CALAMY D. D. One of his Majesties Chaplains in Ordinary LONDON Printed for John Baker Printer to the Honourable Society at the Three Pigeons in St. Pauls Church-yard 1685. To the Right Honourable Sir William Prichard Knight and Alderman President of the Artillery-Company To the Right Honourable Sir James Smith LORD MAYOR VICE-PRESIDENT To the Right Worshipful Sir Matthew Andrews TREASURER As also to the Right Honourable Earl of Aran Earl of Huntingdon Earl of Salisbury Lord Cholmondeley To the Right Worshipful Sir Richard Temple Sir Peter Daniel Sir Samuel Dashwood Captain William Davies STEWARDS And to the whole Court of Assistants Field-Officers Captains and Gentlemen Professing and Exercising Arms in that Renowned and Honourable Society Right Honourable c. SO many excellent Books have been of late Written in defence of Loyalty and the Government in answer to those virulent and Seditious Pamphlets and Libels that have been Published amongst us that we might reasonably hope there should be hardly now left one disaffected Man in the Nation Yet it appears by those discontents that are still whisper'd that there is great need of an anniversary meeting of this Illustrious Society which not only by their Example doth encourage others to be Loyal but can also force those to be such who perhaps might have but little mind to it otherwise And notwithstanding all that hath been said or Printed for obedience to Lawful Authority there are many so slenderly converted and so ready on all occasions to Relapse that there cannot but be frequent use of some plain Discourses to shew the wickedness as well as mischievousness of all disloyal Principles To do this in some measure is the honest design of the following Sermon which is now humbly presented to your favourable acceptance By Right Honourable c. Your most humble and most obedient Servant Benjamin Calamy A SERMON Preached before the Artillery-Company St. MATTHEW XXVI 52. Then said Jesus unto him put up again thy Sword into his place for all they that take the Sword shall perish with the Sword I Can easily imagine some amongst you upon the first hearing of these words ready to tell me that this advice of our Lords is by no means suited or proper to this illustrious Assembly consisting of Men so long Trained up and so excellently skill'd in Martial exercises To bid those who so well know the use of the Sword to put it into its place and suffer it to rust in its Scabbard sounds like a dismission or disbanding of this renowned and honourable Society and an hard censure of your noble Profession as unlawful or Antichristian and infinitely dangerous too if all they that take the Sword shall perish by the Sword But if we better consider what our Saviour here saith we shall not find any thing in this Text against the use of the Sword upon a just and necessary occasion or when it is duely put into our hands by those who have from God the power of the Sword committed to them For he did not command his Disciples to fling it away as of no further use under the Gospel as if no other Sword was now necessary but that of the Spirit or as if all Christians were bound tamely to yield up themselves an easy prey to violent and injurious Men and in no case to repel unjust force by force No our blessed Lord but a little before viz. the very same Night in which he spake the words of my Text had advised his Disciples those of them who had no Swords to sell their Garments and buy one thereby allowing them to provide Arms sufficient for their defence against lawless Robbers and Cut-throats who were very common and numerous in those Countries through which they were to pass for the propagation of Christianity Our Saviour did never intend to ty all his Disciples hands and expose them naked to be Invaded and Assaulted by any one that had a mind to it To oppose force against unjust force is allow'd to every Man by the Law of Nature which natural right our Religion hath not cancel'd nor restrained provided always that we thus draw our Swords only against private Persons and not against those who have Warrant or Command of publick Authority to vouch their force against us and that it be in such cases of extremity where we cannot defend our selves by the regular course of calling in the Assistance of the Law or Magistrate Nay further in the very words of my Text our Saviour doth expresly allow the use of the Sword in the hands of the Supreme power or by Comission and Authority from it For when he saith they shall perish by the Sword he means by the Sword of the Magistrate which shall justly cut off such Offenders Thus from the words themselves we have sufficient evidence that our Saviour did not forbid the use of the Sword either in our own necessary defence or at the Command and direction of the Supreme Governours In which two cases only it was ever lawful for private Persons And in this matter the Laws of our Religion have made no alteration We may still defend our selves by the Sword from the unjust Assaults of private Persons when we have no other Remedy and the Soveraigns of every Nation and Kingdom have the same power over their Subjects persons fortunes and lives that they had before Christianity appeared in the World that they had from the beginning since Men first entered into Societies and lived under Government Our Saviour therefore in my Text forbids the use of the Sword only on that particular occasion or the like on which it was drawn by St. Peter which was this A great company of Souldiers and other Officers from the chief Priests and Pharisees with the Traitour Judas to conduct them were sent to Apprehend our Blessed Saviour in the Garden whither he had retired This the Disciples thought a fit opportunity to shew their courage and constancy to their Lord and Master by venturing their own Lives to rescue him from the mercyless hands of his bloody enemies They asked him therefore Lord shall we smite with the Sword and St. Peter who was naturally of a more hot temper and bolder spirit than the rest of the Apostles without tarrying for an Answer drew his Sword and struck at the chiefest and most busy of them some guess him to be the Man that Commanded the Party and had the Warrant to seize our Lord and he out off his ear But our Saviour liked not this rash and ungovernable zeal and therefore intreated those who had him in their power to suffer him but so long till by a Miraculous touch he healed the Wound and turning to St. Peter bad him put up his Sword again into his place For at present there was not the least just occasion for it as great an one as