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Johann Heinrich Alsted (c. 1638):

[Quaestiones Theologicae; (Frankfurt, 1627)]

Can the magistrate enact laws binding upon the conscience?

God alone, by His laws, can immediately bind the conscience of man. The prince can do so only mediately, insofar as his laws are consonant with the law of nature and of God, the supreme Lawgiver.