A92140:387
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.
Argument V.
THAT which taketh away all ways of removing Heresies under the New Testament,1 both by the Sword, and refuting of gain-sayers by the word, all rebuking, all avoiding of them, is not of God. But such is this pretended Toleration, ergo, It is not of God, the major is evident of it self.
THAT which taketh away all wayes of removing Heresies under the New Testament,1 both by the Sword, and refuting of gaine-sayers by the word, all rebuking, all avoyding of them, is not of God. But such is this pretended Toleration, ergo, It is not of God, the major is evident of it selfe.
- 1Toleration is against the ministry of the word.Toleration is against the ministery of the word.
The assumption I thus prove: Therefore the Magistrate should not punish Heretics, because he cannot do it in faith, for he not being infallible, he cannot certainly and undeniably know that he ⟨p. 152⟩punisheth the man for that which is a Heresy, or for that which is a truth, and so while he is plucking up Tares, he may be plucking up Wheat, and so he cannot in faith punish him, say they.
The assumption I thus prove: Therefore the Magistrate should not punish Heretickes, because hee cannot doe it in faith, for he not being infallible, hee cannot certainely and undeniably know that hee