A65285:2372
A Body of Practical Divinity
A body of practical divinity consisting of above one hundred seventy six sermons on the lesser catechism composed by the reverend assembly of divines at Westminster : with a supplement of some sermons on several texts of Scripture / by Thomas Watson ...
London: printed for Thomas Parkurst, 1692
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Caution II. Neither doth this Commandment, Thou shalt not kill, prohibit a Just War. When Mens Sins grow ripe, and long Plenty hath bred Surfeit. Then God saith, Sword, go through the Land, Ezek. 14.17. God did abet the War between the Tribes of Israel and Benjamin. When the Iniquity of the Amorites was full, then God sent Israel to commence a War against them, Judg. 11.21.
Caution II. Neither doth this Commandment, Thou shalt not kill, prohibit a Iust War. When Mens Sins grow ripe, and long Plenty hath bred Surfeit. Then God saith, Sword, go through the Land, Ezek. 14.17. God did abet the War between the Tribes of Israel and Benjamin. When the Iniquity of the Amorites was full, then God sent Israel to commence a War against them, Iudg. 11.21.
Use I. Lamentation, That this Land is so defiled with Blood: Numb. 35.33. How common is this Sin in this Hectoring Age! England's Sins are written in Letters of Blood. Some make no more of killing Men, than Sheep. Jer. 2.34. In thy Skirts is found the Blood of the poor Innocents. Junius reads it in Alis; and so in Hebrew, In Thy Wings is found the Blood of Innocents. It alludes to the Birds of Prey, which stain their Wings with the Blood of other Birds. May not the Lord justly take up a Controversy with the Inhabitants of the Land, because Blood toucheth Blood, Hos. 4.2. There is a Concatenation, a Plurality of Murders. And that which may increase our Lamentation, is, that not only Man's Blood is shed among ⟨p. 362⟩