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Johann Heinrich Alsted (c. 1638):

[Quaestiones Theologicae; (Frankfurt, 1627)]

Hath a Christian magistrate the right of the sword?

He hath, as it is written in Romans 13:4. And Christ saith, “He that taketh the sword shall perish by the sword” (Matthew 26:52), that is, by public and ordained vengeance.