Military duties recommended to an artillery company

When the Soldiers sat under the Ministry of John Baptist, he said not unto them, Lay down your Arms; but as in Luc. 3. 14. Be content with your Wages; which was as good as saying, Be content to be Soldiers. The believing Centurion ⟨p. 18⟩did not look upon himself as obliged to throw up his Commission, tho it had a Roman Original: and yet of him it was said in Matt. 8. 10. I have not found so great faith, no, not in Israel, as in him. It is recorded of the Patriarch Abraham, (of that Father of the Faithful) in Gen. 14. 14. that he had a kind of Artillery Garden at his house; an Artillery Company was under his Conduct, whereto about forty Files belonged. Shall we imagine that GOD will teach any unlawful thing? No; The ever-glorious GOD Himself is called, The God of Armies. But He is never called, The God of Thieves, or The God of Murderers; or the God of any thing that is to be thought sinful. It is indeed said, that They that take the sword, shall perish with the sword. But this refers to taking up the Sword without a right Cause, and without a just Call. When men meddle with Swords without a sufficient Call from both God and man, they are wont to come off like those Ephraimites which the seventy eighth Psalm singeth of, among other ancient things, who would needs break prison out of Egypt and seize upon Palestine, by Force of Arms, before they had a good Warrant for it, and were slain by the men of Gath, to the great grief of their Father,