A92140:207
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. 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?
Quer. 6. Whether did even 〈…〉 teach that the Magistrate should punish with the sword poor miserable men, because they canot believe 〈…〉 of faith by ⟨p. 62⟩the supernaturall 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 supernaturall truths? we say the Magistrate or his sword hath nothing to do with the elect and internal acts of the minde, of understanding, knowing, judging or believing, but onely with the externall acts of speaking, teaching, 〈…〉 •ishing dangerous and pernitious doctrines to the 〈…〉 and destraction of the soules of others?
Quer. 7. Whether the Magistrate does therefore force the conscience of a false teacher, because he cannot, he dare not keep up doctrines pernicious to the souls of others, but publish them, because his erroneous and evil conscience judgeth them to be saving and necessary truths, when the Magistrate punisheth him, more then he forceth the conscience of a murderer whom he punisheth, though this murderer judged in his conscience that the man be killed did him so crying and oppressive an injury as in the court of God, deserved bodily death; or when this man murdered his son in a sacrifice to God out of mere conscience?