A92140:31
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.
Chap. 12. Arguments against pretended Toleration. Toleration hath no warrant in the word p. 145 Toleration inferreth Scepticism p. 146 Want of infallibility in the new Testament, no reason for the toleration in the new Testament p. 148 Toleration is against faith, hope, comfort in the Scriptures p. 150 Toleration is against the Ministry of the word p. 151 Rulers by the fourth Commandment are to see all under them worship God p. 177 Proposals of the Army under Sir Thomas Fairfax, 12. p. 10. ib.
Chap. 12. Arguments against pretended Toleration. Toleration hath no warrant in the word p. 145 Toleration inferreth Sceptisme p. 146 Want of infallibility in the new Testament, no reason for the toleration in the new Testament p. 148 Toleration is against faith, hope, comfort in the Scriptures p. 150 Toleration is against the Ministery of the word p. 151 Rulers by the fourth Commandment are to see all under them worship God p. 177 Proposals of the Armie under Sir Thomas Fairfax, 12. p. 10. ib.
Chap. 13. Magistracy and perpetual Laws in the Old Testament warrant the civill coercing of false Prophets. Rulers as Rulers, not as typical Rulers, punished false Teachers with the Sword p. 177 Typicalness did not privilege all the Kings of Judah and Israel to compel the Conscience and punish false Teachers as Libertines say p. 180 How typicalness privilegeth men to such and such actions, how not p. 181 Seducers punished by bodily death p. 182 Punishing of Idolaters and blasphemers of the Law of Nature p. 183 How wars that are extraordinary in the manner, and in some particular acts, may be and are in the substance of the acts, ordinary ruler obliging us p. 184 ⟨image 8⟩The Law of God warranted by the Law teacheth that false Teachers and Heretics are to be punished with the sword p. 185 The Law of Deut. 17. 2, 3. for punishing of Idolaters p. 187 There was no consulting with the Oracle who should be put to death for his conscience in the Old Testament, but an ordinary pay of trying such evil doers by judicial proceeding and hearing of witnesses ibid. The end of punishing of false Teachers with the sword is not their conversion to God (ministers of the Gospel only labour in that field) but the not perverting of souls, and disturbing the safety of humane societies p. 188 Sacrificing of Children to Molech punished with death by Gods Law, not as murder, but as spiritual whoredom ibid.