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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.
4 It is not single Idolatry that is his death,1 but his Idolatry in seducing others by word or example, he work• such abomination in Israel, v. 4. in the Church of God, which tendeth to seduce others.
- 1The end of punishing of false teachers with the sword is not their conversion to God (Ministeis of the Gospel only labour in that field) but the not perverting of souls and disturbing the safety of human societies.The end of punishing of false teachers with the sword is not their conversion to God (Ministeis of the Gospell onely labour in that field) but the not perverting of soules and disturbing the safety of humain societies.
Deut. 18. 18. I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren like unto thee, that is, Christ Act. 3. 22. so the Holy Ghost in the Apostles expounds it. And he adds ver. •0. But the Prophet that shall presume (he must mean in the time of the Messiah, when the true Prophet shall rise) to speak a word in my name, which I have not commanded him to speak, or that shall speak in the name of other gods, even that Prophet shall die. It is a prophecy of a New Testament Law, because many were to come in Christs name, and say, Lo I am Christ, as many now do, so Zach. 13. 1, 2, 3, 4.
Deut. 18. 18. I will raise them up a Prophet from among their brethren like unto thee, that is, Christ