Synopsis
Excerpt from A Dissertation on the Right and Obligation of the Civil Magistrate to Take Care of the Interest of Religion, and Provide for Its Support: In Which the Arguments in Confirmation of Said Right and Obligation, Both From Reason and the Sacred Scriptures, Are Adduced; The Usual Objections Examined, Together With Several Corollaries Deduced From the Subject
The propenfity fi'hawan' nfiure'tovibratefram one. Extreme to another, isjo obvious as to'hec'oma'pro werhial which may aford a'eltre whereby t0'account for that dtvrrfityoj'f jfntiments which'prevails'mzth 'ref jgard 'to particular jubje'fls indtfierent ages. And pen 'ads of timei During the reigviofjoopery, the civil magiflratrufas fuppofed not only 'bound by virtue of hzs'ofice to patron 'ize andfupport religion in'geueral, and to make provi jianfan the maintenance oft/zepublic teachers of it but a/fo by the j'power of the civil/word, or penal laws, to compel an cfint to fuch creeds and articles of faith, and a conformity to fuch ceremonies and modes of reti giais war/hip, 'as were enjoined by the church, or the pope and all fuch as prefiemed to defeat/mm, or re' fu/ed a conformity to fuch ejlablyhed [tandard offaith und war/hip, were, after conoifizou'hefore an'ecclffia/tt; caltrihunal, 'to be delivered over 'to theftcular power, or the civzl magi/irate, who bya 'writ deheretico'com burendo orjfor burning cy' heretics, was to cauje them ftp he pzohh'cly 'hurnt to death.
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