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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.
The fifth Answer is, 1That the Laws of Moses cannot reach the heretics now under the Gospel, 1. An heretic denies not God the Creator, nor teacheth he, Let us go after other Gods▪ which thou hast not known as the Apostate Prophet, Deut. 13. (2.) He denies not the word of God, therefore you may use it as a weapon against him, ⟨p. 198⟩but ye can use no sword, but that of iron against Apostates. 3. Heretics as Sadducees were tolerated among the Jews, but blasphemers and Apostates were not. 4. Scribes and Pharisees held many dangerous opinions, yet neither they nor Sadducees were expelled the City or hindered to be Magistrates. 5. Though the zeal of Gods house eat up Christ, and he attempted a reformation, yet he never charged Church or State as unfaithful for not proceeding against them to imprisonment and death. 6. These Deut. 13. would persuade they speak by the inspiration of some Deity, and that their sayings were oracles, heretics do not so, so Jo. Goodwin, Hagiom.
The fifth Answer is, 1That the Lawes of Moses cannot reach the heretickes now under the Gospel, 1. An hereticke denyes not God the Creator, nor teacheth hee, Let us goe after other Gods▪ which thou hast not knowne as the Apostate Prophet, Deut. 13. (2.) Hee denyes not the word of God, therefore you may use it as a weapon against him, ⟨p. 198⟩but yee can use no sword, but that of iron against Apostates. 3. Hereticks as Sadduces were tollerated among the Jews, but blasphemers and Apostates were not. 4. Scribes and Pharisees held many dangerous opinions, yet neither they nor Sadduces were expelled the City or hindered to be Magistrates. 5. Though the zeale of Gods house eat up Christ, and he attempted a reformation, yet he never charged Church or State as unfaithfull for not proceeding against them to imprisonment and death. 6. These