A treatise of the cohabitacyon of the faithfull with the vnfaithfull.: Whereunto is added. A sermon made of the confessing of Christe and his gospell, and of the denyinge of the same.Vermigli, Pietro Martire
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A treatise of the cohabitacyon of the faithfull with the vnfaithfull.: Whereunto is added. A sermon made of the confessing of Christe and his gospell, and of the denyinge of the same.
Vermigli, Pietro Martire
Catholic Church -- Controversial literature -- Early works to 1800
Wherfore Christian princes / whilest they do suffer them in
their dominions / they owghte no otherwise to suffer them / then
vpon suche condicyons as are aboue rehersed. That is / that they
do compell no man to partake their wicked Idolatries. That they
do not permitt them to haue their rites and supersticious
ceremonies. That they take hede / that they do not corrupte
others which do beleaue truly / and be of good iudgemẽte. And
last of al / after that they haue bene cõpetentlie taughte / to
enforce them outwardly to embrace sownde / and holye rites / and
ceremonies agreinge with Godds worde. Thou wilte saie happelie /
if it shoulde be so / their condition sholde be more miserable
then the condicion of the Iewes / and Turckes / whom we do not
compell to receyue our Religiõ. I graunte / but yet this sholde
be iustlie done. And that for theis causes. Firste bycause the
Iewes are not Citizens in our common welthes / but receyued
vnder this condicion / that it is lawfull for them to vse their
owne lawes / so lõge as they will: wherfore if they do not
behaue thẽselues well / or they do not please vs / they be
turned awaie and caste owte / as oftẽ tymes they haue beene
handeled. And not without iuste cause / when their conuersation
hathe beene hurtfull. But these papistes are our citizẽs /
therfore they must be otherwise handeled / and seinge they do
confesse Christe / they are to be enforced to his pure and true
religiõ. Again the Iues can not do so moche hurte as these
Iebuzites maie / for all men / for the moste parte / do shonne
and deteste the Iue / But these are subtile sorcerers / which
vnder the cloke of the name of Christ / and ciuile
familiaritie / maye deceyue many: furthermore there is a promise
of the saluatiõ of the Iues / to be shewed ĩ the latter age /
The lyke peculiar promise of papistes ther is not. And yet I do
not speake this / as though I dyd condemne the counsell of many
good prĩces / which haue cast the Iues owt of their countrye /
for good iuste and laufull causes. Their acte I do allowe. But
to returne vnto theise heretiques the papistes / we are bounde
to praie for them / and seinge they do dwell amonge vs / we
muste obserue the aforenamed rules / In vsinge or not vsinge
familiaritie / and being conuersaunte with thẽ / which I dyd
giue / of being conuersaunt with the vnfaithfull and wicked / in
which sorte I do place them. And if any of them do returne to
the truith / and will embrace the true Religion of Christ / they
are not to be rebaptized. For though a Christian ought not to
demaunde baptisme in the popishe churche / yet the baptisme
which they haue hetherto vsed we acknowledge it to be such that
it is not to be reiterated of them whõ they do baptise.
Augustine writinge of baptisme /
[[Cõtra donat. lib. 5. cap. 23.]]
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