A92140:195
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.
CHAP. VI. Errors in Non-Fundamentals obstinately holden are punishable.
CHAP. VI. Errours in Non-Fundamentals obstinately holden are punishable.
Ye must bear one another's infirmities, and restore these that fall with the spirit of meekness. Gal. 6. 1. and yet not tolerate their errors, and forbear to admonish and also sharply rebuke them and if need be, the Church and Magistrate may proceed to further censures, to excommunication and the use of the sword, for justice is not contrary to meekness, ⟨p. 62⟩nor one fruit of the Spirit contrary to another.1 He […] spareth the rod hateth the child: yet should not a father be cruel to his child, nor is his correcting contrary to fatherly compassion, but not correcting is cruelty to and hatred of the child: and the like we are to think of the punishments and censures of the Nurse father of the Church, and of the Church.
YEe must beare one anothers infirmities, and restore these that fall with the spirit of meeknesse. Gal. 6. 1. and yet not tollerate their errours, and forbear to admonish and also sha•ply rebuke them and if need be, the Church and Magistrate may proceed to further censures, to excommunication and the use of the sword, for justice is not contrary to meeknesse, ⟨p. 62⟩nor one fruit of the Spirit contrarie to another.1 He 〈…〉 spareth the rod hateth the childe: yet should not a father be cruell to his childe, nor is his correcting contrarie to fatherly compassion, but not correcting is crueltie to and hatred of the childe: and the like we are to think of the punishments and censures of the Nurse father of the Church, and of the Church.