“Almost all of our men are of this opinion, that heretics should be punished with the sword.”
Buggsy Zanchius
“De Magistratu,” Operum Theologicorum [1613][Miscellaneorum], 7:166-88
Cited in Turretin Vol. III, p. 334
“Is it lawful for the magistrate to proceed against heretics with the sword?” He answers affirmatively
Machine Gun Bucanus
Institutes of Christian Religion 49 [1606],
p. 874 cited in Turretin, Vol. III pg. 334
“It is not a question concerning the seditious, blasphemous, heretics, who besides the propagation of false doctrine, excite sedition in addition, instigate subjects against magistrates and utter direct and open blasphemies against God; for that they can be capitally punished on account of sedition and blasphemies we do not wholly controvert.”
Locus 24.317, “De Magistratu Politici,” Loci Theologici [1868], 6:446
“No one of us denies that pertinacious heretics can be excommunicated, no one hinders the punishment of seditious heretics, disturbers of the public peace, with the sword.”
Baby Face Gerhard
Locus 24.355, ibid. , 6:470
Both cited in Turretin, Vol. III p. 334
I’m all for the reintroduction of green wood.
The Carleton Pyro
Green and damp