A92140:288
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.
Answ. That is a conjecture that Donatists and Circumce••ions killed themselves to be revenged on Catholics, Augustine neither Ep. 61. nor Ep. 50. nor elsewhere makes mention of such an end they had, but because they believed it was happiness to dye for Christ; yea though so it were, praying and praising, and crying, The Temple of the Lord, will he say there can be no malice in thieves, murderers, adulterers, perjured persons, walkers after other Gods, and such as kill their sons to the devil in Top•e•, Jer. 7. 3, 4, 5, 9. 30, 31. and in bloody persecutors, who said the Lord be glorified, Esa, 66. 5. and ⟨p. 112⟩in these that think they do God service, in killing the Apostles of the Lord, Joh. 16. 1. the man speaks not like a divine but an Atheist, and most that are for Libertinism, to me are Atheists.
Answ. That is a conjecture that Donatists and Circumce••ions killed themselves to be revenged on Catholicks, Augustine neither Ep. 61. nor Ep. 50. nor elsewhere makes mention of such an end they had, but because they beleeved it was happinesse to dye for Christ; yea though so it were, praying and praising, and crying, The Temple of the Lord, will he say there can be no malice in theeves, murtherers, adulterers, perjured persons, walkers after other Gods, and such as kill their sonnes to the devill in Top•e•, Jer. 7. 3, 4, 5, 9. 30, 31. and in bloody persecuters, who said the Lord be glorified, Esa, 66. 5. and ⟨p. 112⟩in these that thinke they doe God service, in killing the Apostles of the Lord, Joh. 16. 1. the man speakes not like a divine but an Atheist, and most that are for Libertinisme, to me are Atheists.