A92140:206
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.
Quer. 5. Is it meet to punish David (suppose he were no King) for adultery and treacherous murder, since without a work of the Spirit of Grace, who only effectually […] being led into temptation, he cannot eschew the […] into adultery and murder? are men-adulterer• and men murderers to be punished, because God hath not imparted ••to them his Spirit of grace, by whose actual assistance only they can decline adultery and marther•
Quer. 5. Is it meet to punish David (suppose he were no King) for adultery and treacherous murther, since without a worke of the Spirit of Grace, who only effectually 〈…〉 being led into temptation, he cannot eschew the 〈…〉 into adultery and murther? are men-adulterer• and men murtherers to be punished, because God hath not imparted ••to them his Spirit of grace, by whose actuall assistance only they can decline adultery and marther•
Quer. 6. Whether did even […] teach that the Magistrate should punish with the sword poor miserable men, because they cannot believe […] of faith by ⟨p. 62⟩the supernatural illumination of the Spirit? whether is […] the question perverted when a Query is made, whether the Magistrate is to punish poor men for not understanding, not […] not judging, not believing supernatural truths? we say the Magistrate or his sword hath nothing to do with the elect and internal acts of the mind, of understanding, knowing, judging or believing, but only with the external acts of speaking, teaching, […] •ishing dangerous and pernicious doctrines to the […] and distraction of the souls of others?