Savoy Declaration of Faith and Order · Chapter 24
Of the civil Magistrate
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2. 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.
Related texts
- Savoy Declaration of Faith and Order (modernized, 1658) 24.2
- Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (first printing, 1677) 24.2
- Second London Baptist Confession of Faith (1689) 24.2
- Westminster Confession of Faith (1646) 23.2
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