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Whoever persecutes a disagreeing person, arms all the world against himself, and all pious people of his own persuasion.
Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647)
No man speaks more unreasonably, then he that denies to men the use of their Reason in choice of their Religion.
Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647)
Force in matters of opinion can do no good, but is very apt to do hurt.
Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647)
True Faith which leads to charity leads on to that which unites wills and affections, not opinions.
Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647)
The Authority of a Council is not greater then the Authority of the Apostles, nor their dictates more sacred or authentic.
Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647)
If Scripture be the repository of all Divine Truths sufficient for us, Tradition must be considered as its instrument, to convey its great mysteriousness to our understandings.
Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647)
Nothing is more dishonourable to God, then to offer a sin in sacrifice to Him, and nothing more incongruous in the nature of the thing, then that truth and falsehood should support each other, or that true doctrine should live at the charges of a lie.
Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647)
For heresy is not an error of the understanding, but an error of the will. And this is clearly insinuated in Scripture, in the style whereof Faith and a good life are made one duty, and vice is called opposite to Faith, and heresy opposed to holiness and sanctity.
Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647)
Is it possible for any man to contrive a way to make the Decree of the Council of Trent, commanding the public Offices of the Church to be in Latin, friends with the fourteenth chapter of the Corinthians?
Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647)
The mere doctrines and opinions of men are things Spiritual, and therefore not Cognoscible by a temporal Authority; and the Ecclesiastical Authority, which is to take Cognisance is itself so Spiritual, that it cannot inflict any punishment corporal.
Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647)
We are bound to follow because we judge it true, not because the Church hath said it, and this is to judge of the Church by her Doctrine, not of the Doctrine by the Church. And indeed it is the best and only way.
Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647)
When men think every thing to be their Faith and their Religion, commonly they are so busy in trifles and such impertinencies in which the scene of their mistake lies, that they neglect the greater things of the Law, charity, and compliances, and the gentleness of Christian Communion; for this is the great principle of mischief, and yet is not more pernicious then unreasonable.
Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647)