A92140:227
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.
Ans. 1I say not for believing tran-substantiation only, men are to be hanged; the question now is of bodily punishing, hanging and burning quick, are particular kinds of punishing, in which I should be as sparing as another man, but the question may draw to this, whether the Laws of England & Scotland be bloody and unjust, that ordains seminary Priests ⟨p. 71⟩and Jesuits, whose trade it is to seduce souls to the whole body of Popery, to be hanged. I conceive they are most just Laws, and warranted by Deut. 13. and many other Scriptures, and that the King and Parliaments of either Kingdoms serve Christ, and kiss the Son in making and executing these Laws.
Ans. 1I say not for believing tran-substantiation only, men are to be hanged; the question now is of bodily punishing, hanging and burning quick, are particular kinds of punishing, in which I should be as sparing as another man, but the question may draw to this, whether the Laws of England & Scotland be bloody and unjust, that ordains seminary Priests ⟨p. 71⟩and Jesuits, whose trade it is to seduce souls to the whole body of Popery, to bee hanged. I conceive they are most just Lawes, and warranted by Deut. 13. and many other Scriptures, and that the King and Parliaments of either Kingdomes serve Christ, and kisse the Son in making and executing these Laws.
- 1They hate God, and love blasphemies in the consequence, who obstinately hold them in the antecedent