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170* weapons away, give up war service, wound and kill no one?" According to these arguments it would seem necessary for the Roman Church to fight, to shed human blood, and to gain peace by the sword For this reason there is a need of soldiers who would go to war for the holy Church and for Country. According to this (view) warfare among Christians is a good thing and founded on Scriptures Therefore, when 'that pillar' was standing in Rome holding and supporting the Church and providing her with a scripturally sanctioned warfare, there came some forth objecting on the basis of 8hristian discipline; but he accused them of being heretics and their discipline but a foul error. (:Now it is natural that the Church, leaning against the secular power, does everything she can to bolster up that pillar, lest it fall down with its strange teaching.:)

Now of course, we have to obey the Scripture but not everything in the Scripture is divine Some portions do not lead us to follow Christ for (they) were written by some only as a (historical) record, and they were never (intended) to have any power. So, for example, when our Lord Jesus cured the lepers he told them Cf. , xxii:74. Augustine is quoted with approval by Calvin: "If Christian discipline condemned all wars when the soldiers asked counsel as to the way of salvation, they would have been told to cast away their arms Those whom he orders to be contented with their pay, he certainly does not forbid to serve." MacGregor,, 1941, p.20.

Possibly I, 19,20.

Luke 17:14.