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CONTENTS
OF
THE THIRTEENTH VOLUME.
THE RULE OF CONSCIENCE.
BOOK II.-CHAP. III.
CONTINUED.
OF THE INTERPRETATION AND OBLIGATION OF THE LAWS OF
JESUS CHRIST.
RULE VI.
The imperate Acts of one Commandment, must not contradict the
elicit Acts of another
RULE VII.
All those Things also, by which we come to a forbidden Sin, are
understood to be forbidden by the same Law
RULE VIII.
Suppositive Propositions are always equivalent to a Commandment..
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RULE IX.
The Institution of a Rite or Sacrament is a direct Law....
15
If the Sense of a Law be dubious, we are sometimes to expound it
by Liberty, sometimes by Restraint
33
RULE XI.
Positive Laws cannot be dispensed with by any human Power....
RULE XII.
Not every Thing, that is in the Doctrine of Jesus Christ, was intended
to bind as a Law....
RULE XIII.
Some Things may be used in the Service of God, which are not com-
manded, nor explicitly commended
RULE XIV.
The Christian Law is fully contained in the Holy Scriptures......
96
RULE XV.
In the Law of Christ no Precept wholly ministers to the Law of
Moses
169
RULE XVI.
The Laws of Jesus Christ are to be interpreted according to their
Subject-matter
172
RULE XVII.
Those, whom Christ addressed, were not always considered the
Representatives of the whole Church
....
201
RULE XVIII.
Evangelical Laws, given to one concerning the Duty of another,
concern them both in differing Degrees....
210
RULE XIX.
Custom is no sufficient Interpreter of the Laws of Christ.......
214
RULE XX.
The Measure of Obedience expected of Christians is greater than that
of the Jews
223
BOOK III.
OF HUMAN LAWS, THEIR OBLIGATION AND RELAXATION;
AND OF THE COLLATERAL, INDIRECT, AND ACCIDENTAL
BANDS OF CONSCIENCE.
CHAP. I.
OF HUMAN LAWS IN GENERAL; AND WHAT OBLIGATION THEY PASS
UPON THE CONSCIENCE.
RULE I.
The Conscience is obliged to obey the Laws of Men....
RULE II.
Human Laws do not oblige the Conscience to an active Obedience,
when there is very grievous Evil in the Obedience.
RULE III.
The Laws of our Superior, that are not just, do not oblige the Con-
science
RULE IV.
A Law founded upon a false Presumption, does not oblige the Con-
RULE V.
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283
Human Laws bind the Conscience in secret, as well as in public... 287
Human Laws, before sufficient Promulgation, do not oblige the
Conscience
293
That a Law should oblige the Conscience, does not depend upon the
Acceptation of the Law by the People....
296
Human Laws of indifferent Matter do not oblige the Conscience of
the Subjects out of the Dominions of the Superior......
301
Obedience to Laws is to be paid according to what is commanded...
304
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the guilty Person to the suffering
the Sentence of the Judge
Adige, may not be inflicted by the Hands
the Punishment, must also repent of the Dis-
315
334
346
for a guilty Person to defend himself by Calumny. 350
istians may not, without public Authority, punish Male-
but they may require it of the Magistrate .
389
lawful to punish one for the Offence of another...
404
Laws of Tribute are moral Laws; and therefore do oblige the
Conscience to an active Obedience
The Laws of Tribute have the same Measures with other Laws of
Government
414
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RULE X.
Customs which are due, are to be paid whether they be demanded
420
or no.....
CHAP. III.
"INCES, AND ALL SUPREME CIVIL POWERS, AND THEIR
LAWS IN SPECIAL.
e Power in every Republic is unlimited
The supreme Power is superior to the civil Laws, but not wholly free
from them
423
435
It is not lawful for Subjects to rebel, upon any Pretence whatsoever 453
The supreme civil Power is also supreme Governor over all Persons
ecclesiastical
470
Kings have a legislative Power in the Affairs of Religion
The supreme civil Power hath a Power of Coercion in the whole
Order ecclesiastical.
492
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The supreme civil Power hath Jurisdiction in Causes internal and
spiritual.
The supreme civil Power is to govern in Causes ecclesiastical, by
the Assistance and Ministries of ecclesiastical Persons...
543
CHAP. IV.
OF THE POWER OF THE CHURCH IN CANONS AND CENSURES, WITH
THEIR OBLIGATIONS AND POWERS OVER THE CONSCIENCE.
The whole Power, which Christ hath left in ordinary to his Church,
is merely spiritual....
549