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Wholesome severity reconciled with Christian liberty. Or, the true resolution of a present controversy…VVholesome severity reconciled with Christian liberty. Or, the true resolution of a present controversie…
Wholesome severity reconciled with Christian liberty. Or, the true resolution of a present controversy concerning liberty of conscience. Here you have the question stated, the middle way betwixt popish tyranny and schismatizing liberty approved, and also confirmed from Scripture, and the testimonies of divines, yea of whole churches: the chief arguments and exceptions used in The bloody tenet, The compassionate Samaritan, M.S. to A.S. &c. examined. Eight distinctions added for qualifying and clearing the whole matter. And in conclusion a parænetick to the five apologists for choosing accommodation rather then toleration. Imprimatur. Ja. Cranford. Decemb 16. 1644.VVholesome severity reconciled with Christian liberty. Or, the true resolution of a present controversie concerning liberty of conscience. Here you have the question stated, the middle way betwixt popish tyrannie and schismatizing liberty approved, and also confirmed from Scripture, and the testimonies of divines, yea of whole churches: the chiefe arguments and exceptions used in The bloudy tenent, The compassionate samaritane, M.S. to A.S. &c. examined. Eight distinctions added for qualifying and clearing the whole matter. And in conclusion a parænetick to the five apologists for choosing accommodation rather then toleration. Imprimatur. Ia. Cranford. Decemb 16. 1644.
London: printed for Christopher Meredith, 1645
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Only I add one thing more in answer to that argument for liberty of conscience, from Acts 5. 38, 39. Suppose Gamaliel's principles to be good, and this speech to be of truth and authority, (which I have proved it is not) yet it is not applicable to the toleration of heretics and sectaries now, that ⟨p. 29⟩case of the Apostles being extraordinary, and great miracles wrought by them, to the conviction of their most malignant opposites, Act. 4. 16.
Only I adde one thing more in answer to that argument for liberty of conscience, from Acts 5. 38, 39. Suppose Gamaliels principles to be good, and this speech to be of truth and authority, (which I have proved it is not) yet it is not applicable to the toleration of hereticks and sectaries now, that ⟨p. 29⟩case of the Apostles being extraordinary, and great miracles wrought by them, to the conviction of their most malignant opposites, Act. 4. 16.
Some it may be will object further from Isa. 11. 9. a place objected in the Paraenetic, pag. 3. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain. And Luke 9. 54. And when his disciples James and John saw this, they said, Lord wilt thou that we command fire to come down from heaven, and consume them, even as Elijah did? But he turned and rebuked them, and said, Ye know not what manner of spirit ye are of, for the Son of man is not come to destroy mens lives, but to save them. A place objected by Nicolaides Refut. tract. de Eccl, cap. 4.