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TOLERATION

fvP^ ndications of a philosophical revival as regards

''^ yflti "eJateda^id discussed in a broader spirit, ^his Icr pt ^af coiS^^^^ he examines every

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inr,hT the M would have become man even if S§al!jt:^otsinned,he^y.:Us:^theH.ue^Pj^

Sit1on'f^iparet[»e'^^st^wXof^f^^^^^^^^ nr nted in Slexico; "Commentaria una cum qua;s-

iSiitSioV" (Venice, V^miMn edj""'. JJ' eaiiioiis, Onprn iihilosonhica

rp?ntrr.,jil;^T/'SaSahan\^^^^^ WLch Goffar; - ^ ^atin Span.h^^^^^^^
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nine editions; In P;™=^^^^\^ "ecundum Lucam"

Biblia^lga a-' corrected by direction of Clement vmi '^eKU W hebraiar pro lingua sancta inteUi- li;" Sermons- "Motiv6s y advert enciasde ^^ ,'>Et;s IT.

Toleration, History of.— In anv attempt to Hell hi^to °calv with the attitude of the Church fowards rel gious toleration two considerations have tShout To be kept in mind.. In the Ar^t place, neaHv all ecclesia.stical legislation in regard to the depression of heresv procee.ls upon the assumption that here"ics are in wilful revolt against laf "l author- tv that thpv are, in fact, apostates who by their

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It is easy to see that in the Middle Ages th^s wa^ rmt an unreasonable assumption The Church ot Cod was then indeed as a city set upon a hill, ^o one could be ignorant of her claims and if certain people repudiated her authority it was by an act of r. . -1 k n Sably carrying with it an.enace to th-ov'^^eigi^ty which the rest of the world accepted Uus at leasi w^ ?he case with the Cat har, the ^^ ^ de'g;^^;^",^ thV Albigenses, with the Lollards and the Hussites nnd h was still the case with the immediate followers o" L ith«' of Calvin, of Knox, and of the other eariy Reformers Onlv by degrees and after a considerable knse of Ume did generations come mto being who could be regarded as inculpably heretical, or the nlea of invincible ignorance implies not only hat ?^J^r edicltion t oof place entirely undeTheretiea influences but also that they could at am adult liie wUhout be ng effectively confronted with he claims which the True Church niakes upon the loyalty of

reasonable men. It might Pl.f ^'^'y .^e ^f ^'j^'^Tm ' for example, that such conditions were at no time realized among the Huguenots of France or m the more Catholic districts of Central Europe Hence

of the Fd°ct of Nantes, or who supported the repres- sive leg slS ion which was inaugurated by the Cath- olic sovereigns of Poland and Hungary m the six-

^X^'lire-tforpltittrbe remembered that In tl e secona p ^^^^ j^.^j^ ^

laTgX wit^^ h enuncTation of principles of right and wrS wtob are of their own mature irreformable the direct repeal of its pro^shne-^

follows that there remain upon the statute DooK a this category, while the n^^*^^;*^,^/^ ;^\,Vlecretals must

provisions as a dead letter anu ., ^^ ^^^^^

validity in Practical We- ^^e ?"ec ^.^^^^^

considerations has been to make It ex' _

to draw a h-'^X/W'^Le Church recognized .the stances under ^"'f^", ',"',:„„ „f dissident opinions desirability "f a large tolera on m ^^^^. ^^^

on the ^oundboth "f J"J^ '^'^^ J to stamp out by a policy of n™„.^7" schief to the well-being of threatened i?'efin''e~.^,,i,..constituted society Christian society. Ev.er> Iw u > . ^f ^^^^
 * '^"^V""^'nftrm rerSn an --il gem. .which

must put down on Pr>""Pl;^'"^,^^^t"!^^,^p, ^nd this is srdition as threatens Its mnjx's^ ,;„nianity are

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