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.

— Jeremy Taylor Θεολογία Εκλεκτική: Of the Liberty of Prophesying (1647)

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