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Elicitive a civil power can only make laws about things civil or human; but imperative it may command the ecclesiastical power to make laws about things spiritual, which laws thereafter it may command to be observed by all who are in the church. Sect. 28. 8.
Other actions, say they, which are only commanded by charity, belong to other special virtues distinct from charity. So, say I, an action may proceed from a civil power either elicitive or imperative.
The schoolmen say, that an action proceedeth from charity two ways, either elicitive or imperative, and that those actions which are immediately produced and wrought out by charity, belong not to other virtues distinct from charity, but are comprehended under the effects of charity itself, such as are the loving of good and rejoicing for it.
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