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Discussion of George Gillespie's Wholesome Severity Reconciled with Christian Liberty
Re: WF: GWS-7 <text> 
Subject: Re: WF: GWS-7 
From: "Raymond P. Joseph" 
Date: Fri, 02 May 1997 11:24:46 -0400

At 07:54 AM 5/2/97 -0500, you wrote:
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>Discussion: GWS. Post 7.
>George Gillespie's Wholesome Severity 
>Reconciled with Christian Liberty
>The true resolution of a present controversy 
>concerning liberty of conscience.
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>>>12. Pelargus on Deuteronomy 13. Those who 
are blasphemers, who openly disfigure the 
church and the state, and who are seditious, 
incur deserved penalties: the rest are to be 
corrected and coerced by other means, as in 
the example of the Emperor Theodosius and 
Justinian in book 5 of Socrates, chapter 10: 
Theodosius threw those who believed 
otherwise out of the city.>>>

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I am impressed with this man Theodosius, the Emperor.
A Christian Emperor, right?

There was a clear sighted vision of the necessity for
civil government to support the true Christian religion.
The problem came later when the "true" Christian
religion became no longer "true", but rather muddled
and muddied with Pelagianism, and other heresies.

Thus the Reformation, and the Second Reformation, in
which Gillespie played such an important role.

For Christ's Crown and Covenant,
Ray Joseph