"Whoever can reconcile this, 'Resist not evil',
with 'Resist violence by force', again, 'Give also thy other cheek',
with 'Strike again'; also, 'Love thine enemies', with 'Spoil them,
make a prey of them, pursue them with fire and the sword', or,
'Pray for those that persecute you, and those that calumniate
you', with 'Persecute them by fines, imprisonments and death itself',
whoever, I say, can find a means to reconcile these things may
be supposed also to have found a way to reconcile God with the
Devil, Christ with Antichrist, Light with Darkness, and good with
evil. But if this be impossible, as indeed it is impossible, so
will also the other be impossible, and men do but deceive both
themselves and others, while they boldly adventure to establish
such absurd and impossible things. —Robert Barclay, 1678
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