A92140:414
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 It is against the love of God, ver. 2. The Lord trieth you whether you love the Lord your God: if he be God our love is due to him.
2 It is against the love of God, ver. 2. The Lord tryeth you whether you love the Lord your God: if he be God our love is due to him.
3 It is against the fear of God, v. 4. Ye shall fear him: if he be God, he is omnipotent, infinitely great and dreadful, therefore by the light of nature to be feared. And 5. cleaved to as the only happiness of men. Add to these, that it is a moral transgression, if Magistracy, and lawful revenging of violence and unjustice by the Minister of God, and Government against highest soul-oppression, be a natural Remedy, not a temporary positive salve (as undoubtedly it is) then sure he that seduces so, should dye.
3 It is against the fear of God, v. 4. Ye shall fear him: if he be God, he is omnipotent, infinitely great and dreadfull, therefore by the light of nature to be feared. And 5. cleaved to as the onely happinesse of men. Adde to these, that it is a morall transgression, if Magistracy, and lawfull revenging of violence and unjustice by the Minister of God, and Government against highest soule-oppression, be a naturall Remedy, not a temporary positive salve (as undoubtedly it is) then sure he that seduces so, should dye.
1. He speaks aversion and turning away from God, and that is hell and the extremity of miseries.
1. He speakes aversion and turning away from God, and that is hell and the extremity of miseries.