{"id":"24.2","chapter":24,"number":2,"text":"It is lawful for Christians to accept and execute the office of a Magistrate, when called thereunto: in the management whereof, as they ought specially to maintain Justice and Peace, according to the wholsome Laws of each Commonwealth; so for that end they may lawfully now under the new Testament wage war upon just and necessary occasion.","segments":[{"text":"It is lawful for Christians to accept and execute the office of a Magistrate, when called thereunto: in the management whereof, as they ought specially to maintain Justice and Peace, according to the wholsome Laws of each Commonwealth; so for that end they may lawfully now under the new Testament wage war upon just and necessary occasion.","proofs":[],"refs":[],"note":null}],"relations":{"lbcf1677":["24.2"],"lbcf1689":["24.2"],"savoy1658-modernized":["24.2"],"wcf1646":["23.2"]},"diffs":[{"source":"wcf1646","type":"earlier","segments":[{"text":"management","position":null}]},{"source":"lbcf1677","type":"later","segments":[{"text":"new Testament","position":null}]}],"page":null,"leaf":null}