CXI propositions concerning the ministry and government of the ChurchCXI propositions concerning the ministerie and government of the Church

Wherefore the opinion of those Sectaries of this age is altogether to be disallowed, who, though otherwise insinuating themselves craftily into the Magistrates favour, do deny unto him the authority and right of restraining Heretics and Schismatics, and do hold and maintain that such persons how much soever hurtful and pernicious enemies to true Religion and to the Church, yet are to be tolerated by the Magistrate, if so be he conceive them to be such as no way violate the Laws of the Commonwealth, and in no wise disturb the civill Peace.

Wherefore the opinion of those Sectaries of this age is altogether to be disallowed, who, though otherwise insinuating themselves craftily into the Magistrates favour, doe deny unto him the authority and right of restraining Hereticks and Schismaticks, and do hold and maintaine that such persons how much soever hurtfull and pernicious enemies to true Religion and to the Church, yet are to bee tolerated by the Magistrate, if so bee he conceive them to bee such as no way violate the Laws of the Commonwealth, and in no wise disturbe the civill Peace.