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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A49120	The history of the Donatists by Thomas Long ...	Long, Thomas, 1621-1707.	1677 (1677)	Wing L2971; ESTC R1027	83,719	176

were condemned as acts of Arbitrary Power But when Julian granted their Society some Priviledges to the vexing and grieving of the Catholicks these were applauded as acts of Grace nor had Constantine that love and obedience from them which they manifested to the Apostate And evident it is that one reason why the Catholicks were so much envyed and hated by the Donatists was because the Emperors did favour them as being more peaceable and loyal Eusebius tells us that Constantine frequently advised with his Bishops even in Secular Affairs And then Quid Episcopis cum Palatio What have Bishops to do at Court say they or to meddle with the Government Vos portatis Imperatorum Sacras i.e. literas nos portamus sola Evangelia You are busie in promoting the Edicts and Mandats of the Emperors we study only the Gospels To this St. Augustine answers Epist 166. Because you have no Power with the Emperor you would raise envy against us that have but Melius est portare veras jussiones Imperatoris pro unitate quam falsas Indulgentias pro perversitate Whatever their study was their practice was contrary their hands were the hands of Esau though their voice was like Jacobs I cannot omit to inlarge a little concerning their Arguments for Liberty of Conscience that there might be no violence or restraint laid upon them to reduce them to Unity in the Service of God Gaudentius a Donatist Bishop argueth thus Scriptum est fecit Deus hominem Aug. l. 2. contra Gaudent reliquit eum in manu Arbitrii sui that is God made Man and left him in the power of his own judgment that is to the Liberty of his own Conscience as the following Discourse expounds it and why should that be forced from me which God hath granted to me Mark saith he how great Sacriledge i● committed against God when humane presumption takes away what he gave and boasts it self to act for God and to defend him with force and violence as if he could not avenge the injury that is done to him Christi par volentes invitat non cogit invitos The peace which Christ teacheth inviteth them that are willing and doth not force them that are unwilling God sent Prophets to teach the People of Israel not Kings and Christ to promote the Salvation of Souls sent not Souldiers but Fishermen To which I may add that of Petilian Contra Petil l. 2. Absit absit à nostra conscientia us ad nostram fidem aliquem compellamus Far be it from us that we should compel any to be of our perswasion * Si voluntas libera unicuique tribuenda est Ceciliano priùs tribuatur August post Col lat cum Donatist To which St. Augustine replies 1. By minding them of their Proceedings against the Maximianists against whom they made use of the Theodosian Laws And 2. how when under Julian they had gotten some power they improved it to the utmost against the Catholicks So that as St. Augustine says the Kite that is frighted from preying upon the Chicken may as well be thought a Dove as they be accounted mild and gentle who only want power and not malice And then he shews how irrational and impious their Arguments are by which all humane lusts and outrages should go unpunished and no King should restrain his Subject nor a Father his Children from any wickedness For if you once blot out that which the Apostle says for the good government of Mankind Let every Soul be subject to the higher powers c. you open a Gap to all Licentiousness Clamate si audetis puniantur homicidia puniantur adulteria sola sacrilegia volumus à regnantium legibus impunita How can you say that Murther and Adultery ought to be punished by the Magistrate but Sacrilegious Schismes ought to be permitted Or that it i● not the duty of the Magistrate to contradict or punish you when you are injurious to his Church and Worship If a pretence of Conscience may supersede the Penalties of the Law few Offenders would be retrained or punished for any Transgression And therefore St. Augustine calls it a most vain and impertinent way of reasoning which their own practice did contradict and confute as often as they had power in their hands and tells them they did most incuriously condemn the Emperors as Persecutors when they only restrained evil doers and dealt with unruly Persons as Physicians use to deal with phrenetick Patients that bind them up from hurting themselves and others Non persequitur Phreneticum Medicus sed Medicum Phreneticus If Men be frantick and being diseased themselves shall endeavour to infect and disturb others he is a Physician not a Persecutor that binds them to better behaviour St. Augustine wrote an Epistle to Bonifacius which in the second Book of his Retractations he calls Librum de correctione Donatistarum Wherein he asserts the power of the Magistrates to make coercive Laws in the Case of Religion 1. Because the Kings that did it not under the Law were blamed and those that did it commended 2. Because it is their duty as Kings Aliter enim servit quia homo aliter quia Rex As a Man the King ought to serve God by living faithfully as a King by executing with convenient rigor such Laws as command things that are just and forbidding what is contrary For what sober Man will say to Kings Nolite curare in Regno vestro à quo teneatur vel oppugnetur Ecclesia Domini nostri It is not your duty to take care who joyn themselves to the Church of God or who oppose it as if they ought not to regard the piety of Men as well as the Chastity of Women or it concerned them that there should be no Bastards and not that there should be no Idolaters or Sacrilegious Persons in their Kingdoms 3. Because Kings may redress what others cannot they having the Sword given them to that end and whereas the Donatists objected Cui vim Christus intulit Whom did Christ ever constrain He propounds the case of Saint Paul that was stricken to the Earth in whom they might perceive Christ first restraining and then teaching him And our Lord appointed Guests to be first invited and upon refusal to be compelled to his great Supper Wherefore if those that are found by the High-ways and Hedges i.e. among Hereticks or Schismaticks be constrained to the Lords Vineyard by the Power which the Church hath received ever since Kings received the Christian Faith let them not find fault that they are driven by force but consider whither they are driven even to those Pastures where they may find true food and rest to their Souls 4. Because the Donatists used unjust violence to suppress the Catholicks much more might Christian Princes use their just Power to support them Cur non cogeret Ecclesia perditos filios ut redirent si perditi filii coegerunt alios ut perirent It is unworthy