Synthesized answer
The passages do not directly answer the question about the practical implications.
However, one passage discusses the practical implications of a sovereign's power regarding religious dissent. It states that it is lawful for the sovereign to punish individuals who oppose their private spirit against the laws, just as Abraham could punish subjects who pretended private vision or spirit against Abraham's commands [1]. This is because the sovereign holds the same position in the commonwealth as Abraham did in his family, acting as the sole judge and interpreter of what God speaks [1].
Another passage touches upon the practical application of religious doctrine by suggesting that a Christian commonwealth's discourse must be grounded not only in the natural word of God but also in the prophetic word, without renouncing senses, experience, or natural reason [3]. It also mentions that a specific canon from the fourth Lateran Council has practical implications for kings, absolving subjects of obedience if a king fails to purge his kingdom of heretics after the Pope's admonition and excommunication [5]. This has been observed in historical events such as the deposition of kings and the…
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he effect of the laws, but of the unrevealed will, and of the power of God; and consequently fall not under obligation. No Pretence Of Private Spirit Against The Religion Of Abraham From whence proceedeth another point, that it was not unlawfull for Abraham, when any of his Subjects should pretend Private Vision, or Spirit, or other Revelation from God, for the countenancing of any doctrine which Abraham should forbid, or when they followed, or adhered to any such pretender, to punish them; and consequently that it is lawfull now for the Soveraign to punish any man that shall oppose…
t Supernaturall Revelation Be Assured Of The Revelation Received By The Declarer? and How Can He Be Bound To Obey Them? For the first question, how a man can be assured of the Revelation of another, without a Revelation particularly to himselfe, it is evidently impossible: for though a man may be induced to believe such Revelation, from the Miracles they see him doe, or from seeing the Extraordinary sanctity of his life, or from seeing the Extraordinary wisedome, or Extraordinary felicity of his Actions, all which are marks of Gods extraordinary favour; yet they are not assured…
this Truth of Speculation, into the Utility of Practice. PART III. OF A CHRISTIAN COMMON-WEALTH CHAPTER XXXII. OF THE PRINCIPLES OF CHRISTIAN POLITIQUES The Word Of God Delivered By Prophets Is The Main Principle Of Christian Politiques I have derived the Rights of Soveraigne Power, and the duty of Subjects hitherto, from the Principles of Nature onely; such as Experience has found true, or Consent (concerning the use of words) has made so; that is to say, from the nature of Men, known to us by Experience, and from Definitions (of such words as are Essentiall to all…
selves; yet to the Antiquity it self I think nothing due: For if we will reverence the Age, the Present is the Oldest. If the Antiquity of the Writer, I am not sure, that generally they to whom such honor is given, were more Ancient when they wrote, than I am that am Writing: But if it bee well considered, the praise of Ancient Authors, proceeds not from the reverence of the Dead, but from the competition, and mutuall envy of the Living. To conclude, there is nothing in this whole Discourse, nor in that I writ before of the same Subject in Latine, as far as I can perceive, contrary…
rved them, put in practise. For the fourth Councell of Lateran held under Pope Innocent the third, (in the third Chap. De Haereticis,) hath this Canon. "If a King at the Popes admonition, doe not purge his Kingdome of Haeretiques, and being Excommunicate for the same, make not satisfaction within a year, his subjects are absolved of their Obedience." And the practise hereof hath been seen on divers occasions; as in the Deposing of Chilperique, King of France; in the Translation of the Roman Empire to Charlemaine; in the Oppression of John King of England; in Transferring the…