A92140:464
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.
3 How will Libertines prove that the second sort of seducers that were to dye for seducing, Deut. 13. 6, 7, 8. the brother, son daughter, or wife that lies in the bosom denied God the Creator, there is no warrant from the text to say they dreamed dreams, and wrought wonders to seduce, or that they professed the inspiration of a new Deity, yet they were to dye, and why not the Heretics, now by the same reason? If they thrust people away from the Lord that hath ransomed them from Hell?
3 How will Libertines prove that the second sort of seducers that were to dye for seducing, Deut. 13. 6, 7, 8. the brother, son daughter, or wife that lyes in the bosome denyed God the Creator, there is no warrant from the text to say they dreamed dreames, and wrought wonders to seduce, or that they professed the inspiration of a new Deity, yet they were to dye, and why not the Hereticks, now by the same reason? If they thrust people away from the Lord that hath ransomed them from Hell?
Yea, 4 These acknowledge the Lord, and the law, and the Lords Priests and Prophets, as some Heretics do now, yet not standing to the sentence of the law that the Priest shall •each, but presumptuously rejecting it, were surely to be put to death, Deut. 17. 10, 11, 12, 13. So he that speaks a word in the name of the Lord (so confesseth, and professeth both the Lord and his word, as heretics now do) which the Lord commanded him not to speak, or shall speak in the name of other Gods, even that Prophet shall dye. And did not Jeremiah and Uriah, the son of Shemaiah and the Prophets that were killed and stoned by the Jews, professed God, and that the word of God came to them and that they had seen the visions of God, yet they were condemned as false Prophets, but for prophesying destruction on Israel, Judah and Jerusalem, and if the Lord had not sent them, but they speak the visions of their own head, they had been false prophets, as is clear,