Luke — Chapter 14
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Verse 23
23. Compel them.) Free-wil. The vehement persuasion that God vseth both externally by force of his word and miracles, and internaly by his grace, to bring vs vnto him, is called compeling: not that he forceth any to come to him against their owne willes, but that he can alter and mollifie an hard hart, and make him willing that before would not. S. Augustine also referreth this compelling to the penal lawes which Catholike Princes do iustly vse against Heretikes and Schismatikes, prouing that they who are by their former profession in Baptisme subiect to the Catholike Church, and are departed from the same after Sectes, may and ought to be compelled into the vnitie and societie of the vniuersal Church againe. Heretikes may by penal lawes be compelled to the Catholike faith. And therfore in this sense, by the two former partes of the Parable, the Iewes first, and secondly the Gentils, that neuer beleeued before in Christ, were inuited by faire sweet meanes only: but by the third, such are inuited as the Church of God hath power over, because they promised in Baptisme, and therfore are to be reuoked not only by gentle meanes, but by iust punishment also. *ep. 50 paulo post princip. & ep. 204. & li. 1 cont. ep. Gaudent. c. 25.