Reformed Covenanter
Cancelled Commissioner
Now there are two sorts of men especially, who may help, and who ought to help to swallow up and suppress the present flood of heresies and blasphemies.
1. You (Right Honourable!) and the rest who are Christian Magistrates. It was but the scornful speech of Tiberius, that the gods alone must remedy the injuries offered unto them: O no! you are custodes utriusque tabulae: you are designed to be Nursing Fathers: you have received the sword to be a terror to the devil. Pious and learned Amesius [William Ames], speaking to that question, Whether Heretiques are to be punished by the Civil Magistrate? Answers thus, Magistratus locus & officiū postulat ut reprimat improbos turbatores gladio, vel potestate publica & externa si opus fuerit: [“The position and duty of the magistrate demands that he repress shameless disturbers with the sword, or by public external power if there is need.”]
It is his place and duty to repress them, and restrain them, if they be noxious and turbulent: yea, and he adds more then every one will be patient to hear: namely, that if also they be manifestly blasphemous and pertinacious, they may be cut off supplicio capitali: according to that in Levit. 24. 15, 16. But I will not fall upon the discussion of that at this time: ...
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1. You (Right Honourable!) and the rest who are Christian Magistrates. It was but the scornful speech of Tiberius, that the gods alone must remedy the injuries offered unto them: O no! you are custodes utriusque tabulae: you are designed to be Nursing Fathers: you have received the sword to be a terror to the devil. Pious and learned Amesius [William Ames], speaking to that question, Whether Heretiques are to be punished by the Civil Magistrate? Answers thus, Magistratus locus & officiū postulat ut reprimat improbos turbatores gladio, vel potestate publica & externa si opus fuerit: [“The position and duty of the magistrate demands that he repress shameless disturbers with the sword, or by public external power if there is need.”]
It is his place and duty to repress them, and restrain them, if they be noxious and turbulent: yea, and he adds more then every one will be patient to hear: namely, that if also they be manifestly blasphemous and pertinacious, they may be cut off supplicio capitali: according to that in Levit. 24. 15, 16. But I will not fall upon the discussion of that at this time: ...
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Obadiah Sedgwick on the magistrate’s duty to uphold both tables of the law
Now there are two sorts of men especially, who may help, and who ought to help to swallow up and suppress the present flood of heresies and blasphemies. 1. You (Right Honourable!) and the rest who …
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