A92140:157
A free disputation against pretended liberty of conscience tending to resolve doubts moved
A free disputation against pretended liberty of conscience tending to resolve doubts moved by Mr. John Goodwin, John Baptist, Dr. Jer. Taylor, the Belgic Arminians, Socinians, and other authors contending for lawless liberty, or licentious toleration of sects and heresies. / By Samuel Rutherfurd professor of divinity in the University of St. Andrews.A free disputation against pretended liberty of conscience tending to resolve doubts moved by Mr. John Goodwin, John Baptist, Dr. Jer. Taylor, the Belgick Arminians, Socinians, and other authors contending for lawlesse liberty, or licentious toleration of sects and heresies. / By Samuel Rutherfurd professor of divinity in the University of St. Andrews.
London: printed by R.I. for Andrew Crook, 1649
Chapter 3: The Church may complain of Heretics.Chapter 3: The Church may complain of Hereticks.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. III. The Church may complain of Heretics.
CHAP. III. The Church may complain of Hereticks.
The same Author argueth against the Churches instigating of the Magistrate against men for matters of conscience 1.1 Ministers are not armed with force and it is not fit they should saevire per alios stir up the Magistrate against others, the Magistrate is the Minister of God properly for wrath. But it is fit for Ministers to say as Christ, I came not to destroy but to save alive.
THe same Authour argueth against the Churches instigating of the Magistrate against men for matters of conscience 1.1 Ministers are not armed with force and it is not fit they should saevire per alios stirre up the Magistrate against others, the Magistrate is the Minister of God properly for wrath. But it is fit for Ministers to say as Christ, I came not to destroy but to save alive.
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Answ. The Author saith the question is not of transmitting of such things to the Magistrate as belong to manners, but to conscience, as if an heretic failed against no manners. Yet all his Arguments prove that Ministers should not complain to the Magistrate of ill manners and the scandalous conversation of any, and this he instanceth from the example of Christ, who