A92140:214
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.
And for such as yield a toleration in non-fundamentalls, but deny it in fundamentals: 1. They must quit all arguments used by Libertin•• for toleration, from the nature of ⟨p. 62⟩[…] ⟨p. 63⟩[…] ⟨p. 62⟩[…] ⟨p. 63⟩[…] ⟨p. 64⟩conscience,1 that it can not be constrained. 2. That they […] be a willing people that follow Christ. 3. That […] Lord of the conscience only. 4. That compulsion […] hypocrites. 5. That to know, maintain, a•d […] truths of the Gospel, is not in our power, as to kill or […] to kill, because acts of the understanding fall not […] dominion of free-will. 6. That the preaching of the […] and persuading by Scripture and reason, not the sword and strong hand, is the way to propagate truth, and […] pate heresies. 7. That the laws of Moses against false […], were only typical, and perished with other […], and therefore there is no warrant under the N•• Testament for punishing heretics; all these and the like […] with equal strength conclude against toleration of such […] erre in non-fundamentalls, as well as in fundamental […] in neither the one not the other, is the conscience to •••strained; nor can Magistrates be Lords of the […] fundamentals, more then in non-fundamentalls, and […] must be a willing people in fundamentals, as in non-fundamentalls; nor can the sword, but preaching of the word only, be a means of propagating of non-fundamentalls more then of fundamentals, when then Libertines […] lost all these arguments, by reason of this […] which here hath no place, their cause must be weak and lean.
And for such as yeeld a toleration in non-fundamentalls, but deny it in fundamentals: 1. They must quit all arguments used by Libertin for toleration, from the nature of