[301] Tertullian, Apologeticum, 39; see also 30, 32. "We pray also for the emperors, for the ministers of their Government, for the State, for the peace of the world, for the delay of the last day."
[302] De Civil. Dei, xv. 5. "The fratricide was the first founder of the secular State."
[303] "The Church reckons her subjects not as her servants but as her children."
[304] "It is the maddest insolence, not only to dispute against that which we see the universal Church believing, but also against what we see her doing. For not only is the faith of the Church the rule of our faith, but also her actions of ours, and her customs of that which we ought to observe" (Morinus, Comment. de Discipl. in administ. Poenitentiae, Preface).
[305] "Apud vos quodvis colere jus est Deum verum" (Tertullian, Apolog. xxiv.).
[306] August. de Civ. Dei, xx. 19. 3.
[307] "Christianus nullius est hostis, nedum imperatoris, quem ... necesse est ut ... salvum velit cum toto Romano imperio quousque saeculum stabit; tamdiu enim stabit" (Tert. ad Scapulam, 2). "Cum caput illud orbis occiderit et ρὑμη esse coeperit, quod Sibyllae fore aiunt, quis dubitet venisse jam finem rebus humanis orbique terrarum?" (Lactantius, Inst. Div. vii. 25). "Non prius veniet Christus, quam regni Romani defectio fiat" (Ambrose ad ep. i. ad Thess.).
[308] "There is nothing so voluntary as religion."
[309] "God does not want unwilling worship, nor does he require a forced repentance."
[310] Athanas. i. 363 B and 384 C μἡ ἁναγκἁζειν ἁλλἁ πεἱθειν "not compulsion, but persuasion" (Chrysost. ii. 540 A and C).