From Reformation to Reformation

But Tolerance differs much from Syncretism. We admit the former concerning Heretics as well as Infidels in the external society of the...

β. There is to be no Syncretism with any Heretics, that is, who err Fundamentally, which is to be held especially in the case of the...

But, as Religion requires such a Confession, so true Religion refuses Mixture with False Religion, either in the same Men, 1 Kings 18:21;...

2. Nevertheless, true Religion requires a Prudent Confession, not with a worldly prudence, of which Luke 16:8, and which might persuade...

True Religion requires the Confession of it, 1. Free and Constant, unto Martyrdom, according to the divine declaration of the Lord...

Now, the More Specific Marks, also sought out of the Scriptures, will prove the excellence of the Reformed Religion above all others....

Marks, by which we are able to distinguish true Religion from false, so that we might be certain of the truth of our Religion, and at the...

But Defection from the true Religion, whether unto Infidelity, or unto Heresy, is called Apostasy. In either case Apostasy verily...

4. But every Error is not excluded from the true Religion, although it moves away from the doctrine and practice of true Religion: and...

3. Schism, which more directly indicates the broken Union of the Church, while Heresy denotes its abandoned faith. And, while Heresy has...

Concerning Heresy Hobbes contends in the worst fashion, that no error pertains to the same; but that all private opinion, whether it be...

When the Apostle prescribes to Titus to avoid, to reject, to repudiate a heretical man of this sort, Titus 3:10, see below Chapter...

2. Heresy, which words is Greek in origin from αἱρέω and αἱρέομαι, especially in the sense of choosing, and of apprehending anything with...

To True Religion is opposed, 1. Infidelity, in which case the name of Christian is not granted. For, although Infidelity might extend...

In general, Impiety and Superstition are Opposed to Religion. And indeed, Impiety, as our AUTHOR holds, is opposed in Defect; which one...

But our AUTHOR does not suffer those inane boastings of our Adversaries concerning all the Fundamentals acknowledged by them, because...

These Fundamental Articles ought not to be excessively multiplied, as is done by the Papists according to their own will, to whom...

The Scholastic Papists had already furnished an occasion for disputation concerning determining the Number of Fundamental Articles, not...

These Articles are able to be reduced to certain Heads, which it is immediately evident are to be reckoned among the Fundamentals by an...

Concerning the Criteria, by which Necessary Articles are distinguished from the non-necessary, our AUTHOR here discourses Negatively and...