A92140:452
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 Was not the cutting off of the murderer out of that good land, as typical as the cutting off of the blasphemer?
2 Was not the cutting off of the murtherer out of that good land, as typicall as the cutting off of the blasphemer?
3 Is there any bodily punishment, but it is carnal and afflictive? I trow none.
3 Is there any bodily punishment, but it is carnall and afflictive? I trow none.
4 Is punishment, and cutting off from the Church by death typical, because bodily? Then the avenging of […] doers under the New Testament must be typical, and is many hangings and headings of evil doers, as many types under the New Testament. If the punishment was typical, because in such a way bodily, as exclusion from a typical land. Then, 1. How is not the killing of the murderer typical? 2. Give us a warrant for this, because we may not, at our pleasure, fancy types where the word gives no ground for them, otherwise we shall with Anabaptists turn all the Old Testament: and whole scripture into types upon our own imagination. 3. How shall violent death •ypi••e damnation and hell, that was existent then, and not a thing to come, and that because it was the cutting off of the blasphemer, not of the murderer?
4 Is punishment, and cutting off from the Church by death typicall, because bodily? Then the avenging of 〈…〉 doers under the New Testament must be typicall, and is many hangings and headings of evill doers, as many types under the New Testament. If the punishment was typical, because in such a way bodily, as exclusion from a typicall land. Then, 1. How is not the killing of the murtherer typicall? 2. Give us a warrant for this, because we may not, at our pleasure, phancy types where the word gives no ground for them, otherwise we shall with Anabaptists turne all the Old Testament: and whole scripture into types upon our owne imagination. 3. How shall violent death ypie damnation and hel, that was existent then, and not a thing to come, and that because it was the cutting off of the blasphemer, not of the murtherer?