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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A54417	Samaritanism, or, A treatise of comprehending, compounding and tolerating several religions in one church demonstrating the equity, and necessity of the act and late vote of Parliament against non-conformists, from reason, the ancient church, and the opinions and practice of papists and Puritans now plotting and pleading for toleration.	Perrinchief, Richard, 1623?-1673.	1664 (1664)	Wing P1604; ESTC R36671	69,567	82

under Persecution and moving pitty and compassion in those that would hear them Et maximè Episcopi Clerici horrenda dura perpessi quae commemorare longum est quando quorundam oculi extincti c Augustin Epist 5. Vide Epistol 166. of their hard measure and of the unreasonableness of the Civil Powers interposing in such matters which ought to be free were themselves most Cruel and Violent against others and especially the Bishops and Clergy men suffered horrible things which were tedious to rehearse putting out the Eyes of some and they cutt off the Hand and Tongue of one Bishop and some they slew right-out I say nothing of the cruel Slaughters saith he and Plundring of Houses by Nightinvasions and Burnings and that not only of Private Houses but Churches also into which Flames there wanted not some who cast in the Books of God Do not these words of Austine come somewhat near a description of our late furious and wicked zeal And what Possidonius in the Life of St. Austine Possidonius in vita August ca 9. Vide ca. 10. etiam addeth of this nature against that Holy Bishop calleth to our minds afresh the Perfecution of the Tongue against our Bishops The Donatists saith he railed at Austine called him Seducer of Souls both Publickly and Privately and said That he ought to be slain as a Wolfe to their Flock and that without doubt all their Sins should be forgiven them Augustin Epistol 68. who could bring this to pass And in another Epistle of St. Augustine is the Inhumanity of those pure Zelots the Circumcellians a branch of the Donatists against such as differed in Opinion from them described concluding In quibus omnibus illi non deponunt facta Latronum honorem sibi exigunt Matyrum i. e In all which they cease not to act the parts of Assasins and yet require the honour of Martyrs And so infinitely Devillish and Malicious was their humour that when they could not destroy the Orthodox by Butchering them they would needs terrifie them by Murthering themselves and so as Austin hath Quidam eorum miserabili instinctu Deo Homiuibus ingrati si suis caedibus nos vastare non ●ossunt ●uo nos exitio terrere credunt aut laetitiam suam quarentes de mortibus nostris aut tristitiam nostram de mortibus suis August Epist 61. either Solacing themselves in the destruction of us or sadding us by their own Deaths And such in some degree do our daies afford who because they cannot have their Will-worship will put themselves into such an untractable and brutish posture that if you let them alone they have their ends if you attempt to bring them to Justice they will create great hatred to their Adversaries by parting with their Lives rather than stir upon fair or necessary means or motives To conclude Legimus vidimus quotid● éque comprobamus Quando persecutio contra Ecclesiam oritur multo pejores persecutores Judaeos Haereticos quàm Ethnicos Hieronymus in Obad. v. 10. It is the observation of St. Hierome We have read we have seen we have daily found it true that when ever Persecution hath arose in the Church the Jewes and Hereticks were alwaies more grievous Persecutors of the Christians than were the Gentiles CHAP. V. A Continuation of the former Subject and particularly of putting Hereticks and Schismaticks to Death IN man may be said to be a Twofold Life Natural and Civil The First is an Union of the Natural parts of a man which being dissevered death follows understanding here the principal which are either simply Essential as the Soul and Body or such as are therefore called Vital because being corrupted or taken away a separation of the more Essential parts do immediately follow Mans Civil Life is that wereby he being a member of the Civil Body separated from that as all Integral parts of a Body Natural lofe that life of common Influence and Protection Hence it is that some Civil Lawyers do interpret Capital Punishment so often denounced against Hereticks in the Civil Law of the later Death as doth Huckleman and some others The Imperial Constitutions which absolutely inflict Capital Punishment on Hereticks Constitutiones Imp. Simplici●er capitis poenam instigen●es Haereticis non de Naturali sed de Civili Capite asserit Wessembeck in Vara. num 6. Huckelmanus Illustr Difput 34. Thes 14. lit 6. God li. 1. T it 5. God li. 1 Ti● 5 Sect. 4. Volumus esse publicum crimen c. are not to be understood of Natural but Civil Death as Transportation and such like But I make no doubt but this is too favourable and forced an Exposition as he that shall observe the Practice the best comment on the Law must confess For when the Code saith Manichaei undique expelluntur capite puniuntur And immediately before Manichaeo in loco Romano degere deprehenso caput ampuatur i. e. The Manichees are to be expell'd and punisht Capitally The Manichee that shall be found in the Roman Territory shall have his Head cut off cannot be meant of Civil Head I confess the most common punishments are such as we read in the same Title against the Manichees and Donatists made by Honortus and Theodosius Emperors viz. 1. We decree it a Publick Offence because an Offence against Divine Religion is an injurie to all wherefore we Persecute such with the Confiscation of all their Goods 2. We will likewise that they be Defeated of all Liberality and Succession coming to them by any Title whatever 3. Furthermore we leave such no Power to give or buy or sell or make bargains being convict 4. Inquiry ought to be made at his Death For if it be Lawful in matters of Treason to tax the memory of the dead not undeservedly ought there here also to pass a judgment 5. Therfore his last Writing is to be Null whether by Will or Codicil or any other way he hath made his Testament if found to be a Manichee 6. Neither do we suffer his Sons to Inherit unless they forsake their Fathers Errours For we allow Pardon to the Penitent 7. We like well that they feel the sting of our Authority who shall entertain them in their Houses by a culpable providing for them 8. And we Will that their Servants be faultless if avoiding such Sacrilegious Masters they pass into the Catholick Church by a more Faithful Service Thus far the Imperial Edict of Theodosius whereby we may easily discern how severe the Ancients were in chastising Hereticks and the several kinds of Punishments devised against them But the great question is Whether it be just to punish Hereticks with Corporal Death according to the Judgment of the Ancient Church The first instance of such severity is that of Priscillianus who was put to Death for his Heresie about which I find the Fathers themselves divided Hierome against Ctesiphon seems not only to approve of