Confession Library / Westminster Confession of Faith / On The Civil Magistrate
WCF 23.2
It is lawful for Christians to accept and execute the office of a magistrate when called thereunto;1 in the managing whereof, as they ought especially to maintain piety, justice, and peace, according to the wholesome laws of each commonwealth,2 so, for that end, they may lawfully, now under the New Testament, wage war upon just and necessary occasion.3