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tofaltaw the author in his long dissertation on the question—What constitutes & heretic ?—for his statements may after all be summed up in this one definition , that a heretic is a person who dissents from the authorized faith . He contends decidedly against tfce punishment of heretics with death , * but maintains that they ought to be restrained and coerced . The duties of bishops and the ministers of the church , in respect to such persons , are , according to his opinion , rico Balduino , S . S . Theol . Doctore et Professore publico , Eccles . P . et S . &c . Witteberg ;* , A . D . 1608 , ' * 4 to ,
* In entering * on this part of his argument , the learned professor thought it right to apprize his auditors that he did not intend to espouse the cause of heretics in what he advanced , ( Section clvi )* 46 Protestanius nos nequaquam hscreticoriim causam agere , neque error ibus aut
malitisc ipsorum patrociiiari : sed detestamuT eos ut tnancipia Satance ^ a quo captivi ducuntur , jnxta ejus voluntafem . " This chapter contains , however , some very liberal and excellent sentiments . He states
(^ clxxxvi . ) reasons , ur ^ ed b ^ his opponents against bis arguments , * ' ( 1 ) Fatetur Christus netnittem venire ad se , nisi Pater traxerit eurn , ( Julian vi . ) . ( 2 ) Si qui hoc pacto cogunt . ur non tarn at fidem , quam ad soliritudinem fidei coactio
fit , quod accidit credeutibus haenticis , t » t in en ore stolidioribus , quos non tantuin correptione , sed centum plagis , hoc esr , peenis ac inconiniodis conipescendos esse ait . " To the > e he replies ( cixxxvii ) : li Ad pritnum dieo : Frivoia prorsus argilmentandi ratio ab actione'Dei intra
homintun , ad cxternam violeiitiam bominum . TraUit Dens homimim aniaios vcrho sno tanquam verriculo et reti , quo ex nofentibus facit volcntes , ut tandem externo quoque opere iuteriiain voluntatis suu ; coiiversiouetn osteudant : Ma&istratibus auteui externa vi fei-e . nihii aliud tfFiccre
potest , quam ut externis nctibus se cotisentire simulent , animis pleruimjue semper repiig > nantibns . 'k > ( clxxxviii ) u Alterum quod objicitur , inane cavillum est ; non enim hoc quteritur , iiinn ^ qui seg"niores &nut in fide compescendi sint legitimiti inediis , ut inajoiem iidei et salutis saac cuiani habeant : sed mim externa vi ,
priesertim eapiiali , qualis Inquisifonbus Hispanis familial is est , cogendi sint , aut cogi possiut : media longa meliora sunt , < 1 iIi-^ entior institutio n erroris , cui hactenus patrocinati fuerunt , deuudatio ; solida cjusdem refutatio n utilitatisqne et certitudinis doctrinac diriuitus inspiratse demon * stratio , ^* Sec .
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1 . to observe and watcli them with diligence , to prevent their intrusion iulo the office of the ministry ,-to seduce the ignorant : 2 . to admonish them : 3 . if they continue ' pertinaciously to hold and promulgate their opinions , to shun them , and refrain as far as possible , from all intercourse with them .
The duties of magistrates in eccle * siastical matters , &c . he states to be , 1 . to guard against the admission of unsound teachers into the church , bv ( he establishment of confessions of faith , and of forms of public worship to be subscribed by them : 2 . to
impose upon them an oalh of fidelity . 3 , to depose ministers of vicious lives , and erroneous or impious sentiments : 4 . to restrain the disseminators of false doctrines , lawfully convicted by the ecclesiastical authorit ies , and eit her
to commit them to prison , that they may learn wisdom and cease to molest others , or to banish them to a distance , that , at least , the inhabitants of their territories may be safe from their poison . Though , however , banishment is the severest punishment » he prescribes for those whom he
describes as heretics , he is not disposed to be equally lenient towards persons whom he deems blasphemers of the Pather , Son , and Holy Spirit . Offenders of this class , he judges , nray lawfully be put to death , as the Jews were accustomed to punish offenders of the same designation , and as Valentine Gcntilis was treated at Bern ? , %
and Servetus at Geneva . •* Bnt , * he adds , •* wilh the exception of tins case , let the pious magistrate abstain from the sword : —errors , and not men , are to be destroyed / ' * lip in iihii ^ " i ¦— m i m ¦ » . i ¦ .. ¦¦¦ —f— . — . , . . — , *—— .. i-. . i .-. p i»^—— " - *¦¦'
* cexxii . lc Episcoporum seu ministrftrum affi c ' ium quo ad lucre ! icos , liiplex est , juxta doctrinam Ajiostolicum- 1 Uiligens iiiquisitio et obsorvatio : hoc enini est cavere Pscudoproplietas , attendere ne forte in siticeriim doctrmac evan ^ felicae iH itnsteiiiuu clancuium sese iusiniient dolosi operarii q » ii inipietati doclrinae scdncsuit
imperitiores . " cexxiii . " % . Alterum vm * cium est odmonitio seniel atque iltnnn repetita INon enim oporlet verbi nmnstros esse canes liuuos , sed D potentis jhI redar ^ uenduin : ideuque . Pa iilus vult non
unam saltern , sed et alteram adhortaUoiieni ad liaerelicos institnendariri > e « t . e , ( Til . iii 1 " / in qua et error ^ x Scrrptu ra < G 8 teiid iwa * * wrraiis debita He \^ rit » tr * Murgma&n * t **
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684 Tht Nonco 7 ifor ? mit . No / XV ,
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Monthly Repository (1806-1838) and Unitarian Chronicle (1832-1833), Nov. 2, 1819, page 684, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/mruc/issues/vm2-ncseproduct1778/page/32/
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