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Wholesome severity reconciled with Christian liberty. Or, the true resolution of a present controversy…VVholesome severity reconciled with Christian liberty. Or, the true resolution of a present controversie…
Wholesome severity reconciled with Christian liberty. Or, the true resolution of a present controversy concerning liberty of conscience. Here you have the question stated, the middle way betwixt popish tyranny and schismatizing liberty approved, and also confirmed from Scripture, and the testimonies of divines, yea of whole churches: the chief arguments and exceptions used in The bloody tenet, The compassionate Samaritan, M.S. to A.S. &c. examined. Eight distinctions added for qualifying and clearing the whole matter. And in conclusion a parænetick to the five apologists for choosing accommodation rather then toleration. Imprimatur. Ja. Cranford. Decemb 16. 1644.VVholesome severity reconciled with Christian liberty. Or, the true resolution of a present controversie concerning liberty of conscience. Here you have the question stated, the middle way betwixt popish tyrannie and schismatizing liberty approved, and also confirmed from Scripture, and the testimonies of divines, yea of whole churches: the chiefe arguments and exceptions used in The bloudy tenent, The compassionate samaritane, M.S. to A.S. &c. examined. Eight distinctions added for qualifying and clearing the whole matter. And in conclusion a parænetick to the five apologists for choosing accommodation rather then toleration. Imprimatur. Ia. Cranford. Decemb 16. 1644.
London: printed for Christopher Meredith, 1645
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The first opinion is that of the Papists, who hold it to be not only no sin, but good service to God, to extirpate by fire and sword, all that are adversaries to, or opposers of the Church and Catholic Religion.1 Upon this ground Gregorius de Valentia tells us there were 180. of the Albigenses burnt under Pope Innocentius the third; and in the Council of Constance were burnt John Hus and Hierome of Pragus.
The first opinion is that of the Papists, who hold it to be not only no sin, but good service to God, to extirpate by fire and sword, all that are adversaries to, or opposers of the Church and Catholick Religion.1 Upon this ground Gregorius de Valentia tells us there were 180. of the Albigenses burnt under Pope Innocentius the third; and in the Councell of Constance were burnt John Hus and Hierome of Pragus.
- 1In 2am 2ae disp. 1. quaest. 11. punct. •.
Suarez de triplice virtute, Tract. 1. disp. 23. sect. 2. layeth down these Assertions. 1. That all Heretics who after sufficient instruction and admonition, still persist in their error, are to be without mercy put to death. 2. That all impenitent Heretics, though they profess to be Catholics, being convict of heresy, are to be put to death. 3. That relapsing Heretics, though penitent, are to be put to death ⟨p. 2⟩without mercy. 4. That it is most probable, that Heresiarchs, Dogmatists, or the authors of an heresy, though truly penitent, yet are not to be received to favour, but delivered to the civil sword. 5. That a heretic who hath not relapsed, if before sentence past against him, he convert of his own accord, he is not to be punished with death, but with some smaller punishment, such as perpetual imprisonment, or the like. Ibid. Tract. 3. disp. 12. sect. 12. he saith, that Schismatics may be punished with almost all the punishments of Heretics.