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Tolerance by John Whale

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Theodore Buza, Calvin's successor at Geneva stigmatised religious liberty as "a most diabolical dogma, because it means that every man should be left to go to hell in his own way". The same logic was being used by his contemporary, William Allen in England, a papal spokesman who contended strongly that it was against the laws of God and nature to persecute Romists, but that heretics might lawfully be 'coerced'

taken from: 
The Protestant Tradition page 231.
Author: 
John Whale