In truth it is right to make a great distinction between the faults that come from our weakness and those that come from our malice. For in the latter we have tensed ourselves deliberately against the rules of reason that nature has imprinted in us; and in the former it seems that we can call on this same nature as our warrantor, for having left us in such imperfection and weakness. Thus many people have thought that we could not be blamed except for what we do against our conscience; and on this rule is partly based the opinion of those who condemn capital punishment for heretics and
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