A92140:208
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. 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?
Quer. 7. Whether the Magistrate does therefore force the conscience of a false teacher, because he cannot, he dare not keep up doctrines pornicious to the souls of others, but publish them, because his erroneous and evill conscience judgeth them to be saving and necessary truths, when the Magistrate punisheth him, more then he forceth the conscience of a murtherer whom he punisheth, though this murtherer 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 murthered his son in a sacrifice to God out of meer conscience?
Quer. 8. Whether or no this divine, who will have […] to be punished for erring in fundamentals, because they believe them not, doth not say, none that teacheth there is •• God, that Jesus Christ is a grand impostor, and faller […] the truth, and saith Satan is the only God of this world, and […] to be served, ought to be so much as rebuked, for without the immediate and supernatural work of the Spirit of God, they cannot know or believe these truth; and are men to be rebuked and preached against, because, God hath not imparted to them his Spirit of grace? whether doth not this arguing evict all the Ministry, rebukes, and exhortation, and moral extirpating of heresies by the power of the word?
Quer. 8. Whether or no this divine, who will have 〈…〉 to be punished for erring in fundamentalls, because they believe them not, doth not say, none that teacheth there is God, that Jesus Christ is a grand impostor, and faller the truth, and saith Satha is the only God of this world, and to be served, ought to be so much as rebuked, for without the immediate and supernaturall worke of the Spirit of God, they cannot know or believe these truthe; and are men to be rebuked and preached against, because, God hath not imparted to them his Spirit of grace? whether doth not this arguing evict all the Ministery, rebukes, and exhortation, and morall extirpating of heresies by the power of the word?