A Reply to his seventeenth Chapter: touching the holding forth of Error with a boisterous and arrogant Spirit.
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CHAP. 17. A Reply to his seventeenth Chapter: touching the holding forth of Error with a boisterous and arrogant Spirit.
Discusser.
It is said by the Answerer, He that holdeth forth Error with a boisterous and arrogant spirit to the disturbance of the Civill Peace, he ought to be punished.
To this I have spoken too, confessing that if any man commit ought of those things, which Paul was accused of Acts 25.11. He ought not to be spared: yea he ought not in such cases to refuse to die.
Defender.
I would not say, That every man that holdeth forth Error in a a boisterous and arrogant spirit to the disturbance of Civill Peace, ought to be punished with death. This is too Bloody a Tenet, unless the boisterous Arrogancy were such as did disturb the Civill Peace to the destruction of the lives and souls of men.
I would not say, That every man that holdeth forth Error in a a boisterous and arrogant spirit to the disturbance of Civill Peace, ought to be punished with death. This is too Bloudy a Tenet, unlesse the boisterous Arrogancy were such as did disturbe the Civill Peace to the destruction of the lives and soules of men.