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The practical divinity of the papists discovered to be destructive of Christianity and mens…
The practical divinity of the papists discovered to be destructive of Christianity and mens souls
London : Tho. Parkhurst and Nath. Ponder ..., 1676
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Sect. 11. Thus they leave little that can be sin in Papists, one towards another, but less towards Protestants. 'Tis no sin not to keep Peace or Faith; not to observe either Truth or Honesty towards Heretics. 'Tis no deceit to equivocate with them in private dealing, or ⟨p. 367⟩public transactions; 'tis no Dishonesty to cheat them of what they have; 'tis no Perjury to break Oaths with them; 'tis no Theft to rob or spoil them; 'tis no Inhumanity to burn their Houses over their Heads; 'tis no Murder to kill them; in a word, 'tis no sin for all Relations to deny them, what God hath made their respective duties.
Sect. 11. Thus they leave little that can be sin in Papists, one towards another, but less towards Protestants. 'Tis no sin not to keep Peace or Faith; not to observe either Truth or Honesty towards Hereticks. 'Tis no deceit to equivocate with them in private dealing, or ⟨p. 367⟩publick transactions; 'tis no Dishonesty to cheat them of what they have; 'tis no Perjury to break Oaths with them; 'tis no Theft to rob or spoil them; 'tis no Inhumanity to burn their Houses over their Heads; 'tis no Murder to kill them; in a word, 'tis no sin for all Relations to deny them, what God hath made their respective dutys.
Sect. 12. Finally, natural Corruption, after Baptism, has nothing in it that can be charged with sin, no, not in wicked men, who afterwards by mortal sin, are quite destitute of grace. So that by their doctrine, a fixed averseness and contrariety to God and holiness, an habitual enmity against him,