A92140:183
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
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And all Israel shall hear, and fear, and shall do no more any such wickedness as this is among you: and afflictions work the same way now Rom. 13. 3. for rulers are not a terror to good works but to the evil, wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? do that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same.
And all Israell shall hear, and fear, and shall doe no more any such wickednesse as this is among you: and afflictions work the same way now Rom. 13. 3. for rulers are not a terrour to good works but to the evil, wilt thou then not be afraid of the power? doe that which is good, and thou shalt have praise of the same.
There be five pull-backs that keep men even in heresy and in a false way, as may be collected out of Augustine's writings ⟨p. 56⟩from which by the terror of just laws, they may be affrighted from seducing of others as 1.1 fear of offending men especially those of their own way; 2. an hardening custom in a false way. 3. a wicked sluggishness in not searching the truth of God. 4. the wicked tongues of enemies that shall traduce them, if they leave heresies. 5. a vain persuasion that men may be saved in any Religion. See Augustine epist. 114. & ad Vincent. epist. 48. epist. 50. ad Bonifacium. contra Petilianum. l. 3. c. 83. lib. 3. contra Cresconium cap. 51. contra Guidentum. l. 1. c. 19. & lib. contra Parmen. c. 10. contra Gaudent. l. 1. c. 24. de unitate Eccles. c. 20. epist. 166. And so that which the Objector Mr. John Goodwin long ago objected is easily answered,2 that the Magistrate cannot in justice punish that which is unavoidable and above the power of free-will to resist, but such are all heresies and errors of the mind. For this might well have been objected against that most just law