From Tyndale to Madison by Farris Michael

Author:Farris, Michael [Farris, Michael]
Language: rus
Format: epub
Publisher: B&H Publishing
Published: 2007-06-30T20:00:00+00:00

Cobbet scoured the writings of various church fathers and more recent authors for passages buttressing his opinion. One source he cited was Beza's De Haereticis, published in defense of the Servetus affair. Cobbett quoted a large chunk of it:

In or by what right did Christ twice take the Whip in hand? … By what right did Peter kill Ananias and Sapphira? By what right did Paul strike Elimas blind? What? By that of the Ecclesiastical Ministry? Surely no, unless you would confound the Jurisdictions; therefore by the right of the Civil Magistrate: for there is no third. Yet I acknowledge this power put forth by Ministers of the Word, was in them extraordinary, and the manner of exercising it after a sort divine: but I prove, that though the Lord doth not always make use of the help of the Magistrates, yet in all ages, he doth make use of the Power whereof the Magistrate is the only ordinary Minister, according as himself seeth it meet, for the preservation of his Church.23

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