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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.
2. I see nothing said against bodily punishing of such as teach transubstantiation to others: for the Idolaters and Seducers in the Old Testament believed the same way, there is one true God Jehovah that brought them out of Egypt, Exod. 32. 4, 5. Jeroboam who made two Gods, and Jehu who was zealous for Jehovah, 1 King. 13. 6. c. 13. 1, 2, 3. 2 King. 9. 25. 36, 37. c. 10. 16. 20, 21. and Joram, 2 King. 5. 7. acknowledged God could kill and make alive, and was just in his promises and threatenings, yet worshipped the golden calves, those who cried the Temple of the Lord, must acknowledge there was but one true God, yet they burnt incense to Baal, and killed their children to Molech, Jer. 7. 4, 5 9. 30, 31. They that asked of Jehovah the ordinances of their God, and fasted to Jehovah, Esa. 58. 1, 2, 3, 4. yet inflamed themselves under every green tree, Esa. 57. 5. and slew their children under the clefts of the rocks: the heathen knew God, and one God, who made the heaven and the earth, and worshipped him, though ignorantly, [Greek or Hebrew] Rom. 1. 20, 21. Act. 17. 23. yet denied and hated this logical consequence that they had forsaken the Lord, Jer. 9. 13, 14. or Deut. 32. 18. forgotten the rock that begat them, Ps. 78. 11. 41. Ps. 107. 12, 13