A92140:180
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
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.
And again, but as in Religion, so also in defending of Religion they are deceived, Religion is to be defended not by killing but admonishing, others read, by being killed, not by cruelty, but by patience, not by wickedness, but by faith.
And again, but as in Religion, so also in defending of Religion they are deceived, Religion is to be defended not by killing but admonishing, others read, by being killed, not by crueltie, but by patience, not by wickednesse, but by faith.
But here he speaks of defending in a hostile way, by killing those that will not be of our Religion, be it the Pagan religion and most devilish not of defending the Christian professors, from the infection of wolvish seducers, by the sword of the Nurse-father of the Church, who is to defend good men and to execute vengeance on evil doers. For in all this Lactantius speaks of such a violence as is without teaching, parati sum•s andire si doccant tacentibus certe nihil credimus. But suppose ⟨p. 54⟩some father: were in that error (as Augustine was,1 but retracted it) though, Augustine […] we may compel man to the faith,2 yet […] of improper compulsion, and of Donatists the such as are […] the Church, whom he thinks the Magistrate on […] to punish, which is not a compelling of the […] to the sound faith, but an act of justice in punishing him for his […] of heresies to the perverting of the faith of others. Upon these […] is Cyril saith, Moses Law is one and he Kingdom of C•••t is wholly heavenly, and spiritual, and […] before hath spiritual […] and spiritual armour: and therefore a spiritual not a car••• sword to punish the enemies of this Kingdom, […] Christian men. But he speaks of […] without the Church (who as I constantly […]) are not with wars and the sword to be compelled to […] the Christian Religion and therefore adeth on the […] did fight against Amorites, Canaanites and […] with […] of iron: but he speaks not of the Laws […] 24. and […], in which death was decreed for the false Prophet within the visible Church. At […] the fathers have […] with unsound Emperors who have tolerated, […], Arians, and Jews, but that is no law for us. But the other point is that though these that are without are not to be compelled to embrace the true Religion it followeth not that the Magistrate should not […] Prophets, or pernicious teachers such as Baals […], who openly […] the people of God to Idolatr. 1. Become the Magistrate cannot, […] ought not to compel […] liars, to be […] it with their own as well as they must be such externally, no more then he can compel them to inward fear, love, faith in God, and to the external performances […].