In short, all that owe any duty to Heretics are discharged from the obligation, and exempted from paying any. In their Canon Law ⟨p. 6⟩it is decreedn that all who are bound to Heretics by any obligation, whether of Oath, or Fealty, or Service, or any other Agreement, or promise, are freed there from. Subjects owe no Allegiance to their Prince, nay they may lawfully kill them, as their Authors commonly conclude. Servants owe Masters no Faithfulness, no service; though they be slaves, and purchased with their money, yet they are discharged; and if they discover their Master's Heresy, and so seek to take away his life, though they be not Christians, it's reason (they hold) that they have absolute freedom when none but Christian slaves may have it, save upon such a treacherouso account. Parents lose authority over their Children, so their Lawp will have it: and Children owe no duty to such Parents, only they are bound under mortal sin to denounce them, that is, to discover their Heresy; which is the way to deprive their Parents of their lives. And they give this reason for it, because it is lawful for a Child to kill his Father, if he be an enemy to the Common-wealth; and therefore he may much more lawfully in this case deal thus with his Father, that is, betray him to death. This is an act worthy of honour and praise, as is proved by the Constitutions of several Popes, and so many other qWriters, that it may pass for their common Doctrine; nor can they be secured from suffering for their Parents Heresy, without detecting them, as* Innocent 4th decrees.
In short, all that owe any duty to Hereticks are discharged from the obligation, and exempted from paying any. In their Canon Law ⟨p. 6⟩it is decreedn that all who are bound to Hereticks by any obligation, whether of Oath, or Fealty, or Service, or any other Agreement, or promise, are freed there from. Subjects owe no Allegiance to their Prince, nay they may lawfully kill them, as their Authors commonly conclude. Servants owe Masters no Faithfulness, no service; though they be slaves, and purchased with their money, yet they are discharged; and if they discover their Master's Heresie, and so seek to take away his life, though they be not Christians, it's reason (they hold) that they have absolute freedom when none but Christian slaves may have it, save upon such a treacherouso account. Parents lose authority over their Children, so their Lawp will have it: and Children owe no duty to such Parents, only they are bound under mortal sin to denounce them, that is, to discover their Heresie; which is the way to deprive their Parents of their lives. And they give this reason for it, because it is lawful for a Child to kill his Father, if he be an enemy to the Common-wealth; and therefore he may much more lawfully in this case deal thus with his Father, that is, betray him to death. This is an act worthy of honour and praise, as is proved by the Constitutions of several Popes, and so many other qWriters, that it may pass for their common Doctrine; nor can they be secured from suffering for their Parents Heresie, without detecting them, as* Innocent 4th decrees.
- nCap. Final. de Haretecis.
- oAzon. Instit. Moral. Tom. 1. l. 8. c. 12. q 7. Penna, Molina & Sanchez. Ibid c 24. m, 10. 11.
- pCap. 2. sed. final. de Haereticis in 6.
- qBonacina de obligatione denunciandi, Disp, 4. p. 2. n. 3. It a Farinacius, Azorius & alii ferè communiter. Idex aliis Sum. Pontisicum Constitutionibus probat Penna. Ibid.
- *7 Decret. de heretic. c. 3.
