So that
the same Law of Necessity of Common Peace, which moved the People
to choose Officers, and to compose a Law to be a Rule of
Government: the same Law of Necessity of Protection doth raise an
Army. So that an Army, as well as other Officers in a Commonwealth,
spring from one and the same root, viz., from the necessity of
Common Preservation."

AN ARMY IS TWO-FOLD: VIZ., A RULING ARMY, OR A FIGHTING ARMY.

"A Ruling Army is called Magistracy in times of Peace, keeping that
Land and Government in Peace by Execution of the Laws, which the
Fighting Army did purchase in the field by their blood out of the
hands of Oppression. All Officers, from the Father in a Family to
the Parliament in a Land, are but the heads and leaders of an Army;
and all people arising to protect and assist their Officers, in
defence of a right-ordered Government, are but the body of an Army.
And this Magistracy is called the Rejoicing of all Nations, when
the foundations thereof are Laws of Common Equity, whereby every
single man may enjoy the fruits of his labor, in the free use of
the Earth, without being restrained or oppressed by the hands of
others.

"Secondly, A Fighting Army, called Soldiers in the Field, when the
necessity of preservation, by reason of a foreign invasion, or
inbred Oppression, doth move the people to arise in an Army to cut
and tear to pieces either degenerate Officers, or rude people, who
seek their own interests, and not Common Freedom, and through
treachery do endeavour to destroy the Laws of Common Freedom, and
to enslave both the Land and the People of the Commonwealth to
their particular wills and lusts.... The use or work of a Fighting
Army in a Commonwealth is to beat down all who arise to endeavour
to destroy the Liberties of the Commonwealth. For as in the days of
the Monarchy an Army was used to subdue all who rebelled against
Kingly Propriety, so in the days of a Free Commonwealth, an Army is
to be made use of to resist or destroy all who endeavour to keep up
or bring in Kingly Bondage again.... Therefore, you Army of
England's Commonwealth, look to it. The Enemy could not beat you in
the field, but they may be too hard for you by Policy in Counsel,
if you do not stick close to see Common Freedom established. For if
so be that