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A31366	The testimony of a cloud of witnesses who in their generation have testified against that horrible evil of forcing of conscience, and persecution about matters of religion ... / composed together, and translated into English, by ... William Caton.	Caton, William, 1636-1665.	1662 (1662)	Wing C1520; ESTC R34418	41,021	63

into Wolves or Wild Beasts and use fleshly Weapons then will you exclude your selves out of his calling and forsake his Banner and then will he not be your Captain Often doth Chrisostomus shew how that the true Christians may not put any Heretick to Death nor with Violence Force him to the Faith manifesting how it is against the Scripture Reason and Equity that People should put men to Death because of their Opinion or Ignorance who otherwise are of a good Life and Conversation Aug. Diligite homines interficite Errores sine sevitia pro veritate certate Where hast thou ever read in thy dayes said Menno in the Writings of the Apostles that Christ or the Apostles ever cryed out to the Magistrates for their Power against them that would not hear their Doctrin nor obey their Words I know certainly said he that where the Magistrate shall banish with the Sword there is not the right Knowledge Spiritual Word nor Church of Christ 't is Invocare brachium seculare It is not Christian-like but Tyrannical said D. Philipsen to Banish and Persecute People about Faith and Religion and they that so do are certainly of the Pharisaical Generation to whom Stephen said you stiff-necked and uncircumcised in heart and ears you do alwayes resist the Holy Ghost Acts 7.51 52. When a King or a Prince giveth forth a Law by virtue of which Murderers are to be put to Death then all the People that own and obey this Law will do their best in helping to put them Death whom they know assuredly to be Murderers even so said a certain Writer when the Bishops Presbyters or any other writeth or publisheth that People ought to put Hereticks to Death then must it needs follow said he that the Papists shall do their best to put the Protestants to Death and the Protestants the Papists the Episcopal men the Presbyterians and the Presbyterians the Episcopal men for every Sect supposeth themselves to be the right Believers and the rest they esteem to be Hereticks and then should Mannasseh with Ephraim and Ephraim with Mannasseh rise up against the Jews yet should not the Wrath of the Lord be appeased Castellius testified how that some of the Divines so called when they medled with Hereticks they judged them all to be Apostates false Prophets and Blasphemers to the end that thereby they might the more vilifie and oppresse those that differed from them which saith he hath been the manner of all Scribes and Pharisees But who can produce a Law out of the holy Scripture that requires Hereticks to be put to Death 't is true said he there are Laws against Blasphemers but what is this to the purpose except it can be proved that Hereticks are Blasphemers for who will believe that all these who at this day are crlled Hereticks are Blasphemers and ungodly Men who are so foolish as to believe the Pope who judgeth the Protestants to be Blasphemers because they differ from him in point of the Sacrament that they therefore are Blasphemers and that the Baptists are Blasphemers because they differ from him in their Baptism Aeontius said It cannot be that a Heretick should reject his Errour when he will except that some reason constrain him thereunto Wherefore then said he do you trouble such a miserable man for to make him Lie and to provoke him more and more to Sin against the Lord surely men cannot deny but that it is an Invention of Satan said he for to Force the Servants of God to deny Christ for fear of Punishment Further said he people must seek to conquer such men not through Threatnings but it must be through the Power of certain Testimonies and living Manifestations CHAP. XI The Popes Counsel and Intreaty The sad Effects of cruel Proclamations How Inconsistant it is with the Life of Christ to Persecute Under what pretence the true Believers have Suffered And how Persecution cannot effect the thing for which it is intended HEresie is a Greek Word and signifieth a Sect or an Opinion and they that did stiff-neckedly cleave unto evil Sects were called by the Greeks 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 〈◊〉 by the Latines Pertinaces and by us are they called Hereticks Now it is an easie matter to accuse a man of being a Heretick and of retaining Opinions contrary to his Conscience but it is a difficult thing sufficiently to prove and manifest the same for all the Martyrs that have Suffered for the name of Christ have been accused with being Hereticks even as the Innocent Lamb 's of Christ that Suffer now for his Names sake are accused at this day Pope Paul the third counselled and intreated the Emperour Charles and King Ferdinandus to compel the Protestants to forsake their Error Anno 1545. There can be no greater Suffering and Sorrow said a certain wise Man brought upon such as fear the Lord than there may by compelling them through Punishment to do that which is against their Conscience or to leave off such an Exercise as they are perswaded in their Conscience is necessary to their Salvation The History do shew how that in the Low-Countries there were betwixt eighteen and nineteen thousand Men put to Death upon their resisting of the Inquisition being brought into those Parts Moreover the Chronicle testifieth That in the Dayes of Charles the Emperor there were above fifty thousand Men put to Death by Proclamations some Proclamations did forbid upon pain of Death Peoples holding any Fellowship with them that fled or were Banished about Religion or of assisting them with Money or Provision yea one was Hanged saith the Chronicle because he entertained his own Son Merck-tyck pag. 77. Now if any Emperor King Prince or Superiours should through the Counsel of the Divines or Clergy goe the same way that this Emperor Charles went with his Son King Phillip who were Destroyed with their Land and People who may not so truly as certainly Prophesie and warn such Powers who wilfully take such a Course said the Author that they also will bring themselves with their Land Religion and Subjects to Ruine M. Publ. Alienis malis cautior Seneca 21. Some are and have been of that Opinion That there are no People that ought to be more severely Punished than Hereticks Blasphemers and Contemners of Religion But what said Erasmus Is it a greater Transgression to be a Christian than to be a Murtherer of Father or Mother c. But such things shall the Devil raise up against the Gospel and oftentimes they are called Hereticks who do so little contemn Religion that they will die for their Religion and therefore it appears said he that they are no despisers of Religion who are so given up to Suffer for to keep a good Conscience before God Likewise He appears to be free from Blasphemy who will rather die than by imbracing Error will be freed from Death or Persecution such appear to be free from Blaspheming God willingly And as concerning the Life of Christ