be
made no whit the better / but a greate deale worse then they
were before.

The fourth is / that these princes take Godd hede / that by this
dwellinge and conuersation which they do graunte vnto the
vnfaithfull / they do not infecte the poeple committed to their
cure and chardge with their scabbe of vnbelefe and errour.
Charytie is to be shewed vnto straungiers indede / but yet not
so that they muste hurte the poeple among whom they lyue. And
this shal the princes remedie very wel / if that they do not
always beare with the corrupt blindnes of the vnbeleauers /
but after sufficient teachinge do compell them to embrace true
religion. I say that when they haue prouided that these
vnfaithfull haue bene taught a good whyle and truly instructed /
they must then enforce and compell them vnto those holye and
pure rytes and worshippinges of Godd which are commaunded in the
scriptures: for princes and rulers must not alwayes / nor yet to
longe suffer theyr cytyzens and subiectes / to lyue without
exercise of godlynes and vertue. The ende of policall
gouernemente is / that the subiecte both sholde lyue in
felycytie / and also in the practyse of godlynes / because that
godlines and the true worshipp of God is the chefest of all
vertues.

But some man will obiecte against me / and say / yf so be that
the vnfaithfull be not yet persuaded / they shall then embrace
truthe against theyr conscience / which thinge yf the prince
compell them to do / then he compelleth them to synne. Here must
we make a difference betwene the thinge that of it selfe is
synne / and that which is so by chaunce / by some fortune / or
some other thinge that happeneth / per accidens, as the
Logicians do saye: for when the Magistrate / in the matter which
now we haue in hand / dothe propounde vnto these his subiectes /
the thing that is right / goode / iuste / and commaunded of God /
prouidinge to haue them taughte therin / and they will not be
taughte / yf then he enforceth them owtwardlye to vse none other
order in religion then is commaunded of Godd / and to forsake
all other / he doth that which is iuste and appertayninge to his
office. But that synne is entermingled in this matter / truly it
is not throughe the faulte of the prince / but it is of the
vnbeleif of these men / of whiche the prince can not be iustly
accused / when he hath diligently done his part / that they shold
be well instructed. Morouer them which do obiecte this consider
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