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HERESY. 
ce! writ of courfe, but iffuing only by the fpecial spe “4 
the — im’ council. ee hig “ 
rei ; IV., the clergy, availing themfelves of ne 
king’ 8 bibheioime title for an increafe of their own power, ob- 
tained an act of SFr 2 Hen y virtue 
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pe the cnc © of the ee mona os the facri- 
) 
tod in cafe of burning res he in Ae omncll fynod 
y (5 Rep. 23. 12 Rep. 56.92.)5 or, according to 
7. Hale, in the diocefan ilo; but in either cafe the 
writ is not demandable of common right, but grantable 
or otherwife, merely at the king’s difcretion. 1 Ha 
(See De Harerico Comburendo.) By this fla. 
tute the term herefy is reftrained to fuch tenets as are either 
Siercinable by the words of the canonical fcripture, or by a 
one of the four firft general councils, or by fome other 
council which has only ufed the exprefs words ‘of oe 
a conviction before him was, as 
tie fj - 
atly a good. feundation for the writ De Heretico Combu 3 le ghee wihon. yo ci fe at i erin ‘piri, 
- But the temporal courts cannot punith a 4 seahes i 
fiich, but only asa ditturber of the public 
courts vas incidentally take knowledge whether a Leot te 
tical or not ; as anciently, where bifhops 2 erounae 
Commitment of a man as an heretic on 2 Hen. IV. whieh 
ed themr'to imprifon for her or even at this day, 
ae piace to a quare the refufed t the 
eo se ae 
De Heretico Comburendos bet he forfeited neither fends nor 
‘goods: but though this writ is now abolifhed, and all the 
old ftatutes which gave a power to arrelt orimprifon perfons 
erefy, or introduced any forfeiture on ot account, are 
repealed 1¢ common law, in force, an obftinate 
De Excom- 
ally renounce his error; e is di vi tet at. 
It is the wifh of many, however, 
riGted i migatys ane? in : country that: 
and libe- 
Thus it is a herefy.in morals to fay, that a man mu 
ungra ae It isa herefy in geod to fay, that two tri- 
fimilar. 
feet. 
Heretic, in a bad face aecording to the opinion of 
Whitby, Folter, and many others, is one who knowingly 
efpoufes a falfe doctrine, is infincere in his pr rofefion, and 
flerts and defends what is convinced 1s contrary to 
and confequently fupports the intereft of a 
prvigni in order to ferve fome bad de efigns. According to 
opinion, a heretic not only entertains wrong fentime nts 
f Chri, but doth this wilfully, and with an iil inten 
o mére error of the teak d can be 
Chriftianity, 
oie i a tel 
nia 
his own re 
that ge a 
ftudy to. me i thereb tlie ies, to 
oe t, 0 a eset maintasnin z his fen- 
S ee i, | ba ; at, ingle re bg 
» Xie 7 cond a. xil. ae 42. 8, wF 
ng months where compar Hs are. ‘faid to be condemned by thofe w! 
 furnith out with or r condemnati tion : compare Job, 4 
6. Pyne xix, 2 
Dek ere: ex, tion of the term “heietic, : 
2 Fees Biota: whack 
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