What of the Christian bearing the sword?

"It is true, he had signified to his disciples, that they would be in such circumstances as wherein they would stand in extreme need of this sort of defence; and had said to them, 'He that hath no sword, let him sell his garment, and buy 'one,' Luke 22. 36. Yet, while tehy stood in the greatest need of selling their garments to buy swords, before the Emperor turned Christian, they did not reckon that these words of the Lord were intended to oblige them to take the sword for their defence in their profession: For when the disciples answered Christ, saying, 'Here are two swords,' he said unto them, 'It is enough;' surely not for eleven disciples; but it was enough for his purpose, which was to give occasion, first, for the 'miracle of healing Malchus's 'ear,' wherein he gave a notable evidence of his good-will to his enemies, and that he was able to deliver himself, but condescended to suffer; and a notable pattern to his people, of doing acts of kindness to enemies, and of patience in suffering; and, secondly, for the following prohibition of drawing the sword in his quarrel; for, when he healed the ear, he said to his enemies, 'Suffer ye thus far,' Luke 22. 51; and to Peter, Matth. 26. 52 'Put up again thy sword into his place; for all they that take the sword, shall perish with the sword.' He speaks there of another sort of defence, more agreeable to the nature of his heavenly kingdom, than the sword of his disciples, which he would have used rather, if it had not been unsuitable to his present condition, and against the fulfillment of the Scripture, v 53-54 'Thinkest thou that I cannot now pray to my Father, and he shall presently give me more than twelve legions of angels? But how then shall the Scriptures be fulfilled, that thus it must be?' There is no need of the sword of the disciples to defend the kingdom of heaven; the armies of angels are more suitable to this kingdom than armies of fighting men." - John Glas, The Works of Mr. John Glas: In Four Volumes, Vol. 1, Pg. 90