A92140:481
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
Chapter 16: Prophesies in the Old Testament, especially Zach. 13. 1, 2, 3, 4. 5, 6. for punishing f…
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 Answer to this argument hath no hue or apparent colourableness of truth. 1As 1. It respecteth only the Church of the Jews, why? because, it saith, The house of David, and the Inhabitants of Jerusalem, 2. because Matth. 15. 24. he saith I am not sent but to the lost sheep of the house of Israel, and this Fountain cannot reasonably be opened to the Gentiles, but to the Jews, 3. It is for the Jews encouragement, Ezr. 5. 1. and the Prophets use not to speak of the Gentiles,2 to make them equal and superior in holy privileges to them; for it argueth Gods displeasure with the Jews: I will move them to Jealousy with those that are no people. 4. (The word land) I will cut off the names of Idols out of the land, indefinitely put in the old Testament, notes the Land of Canaan, it was fulfilled under Antiochus, and ended with the siege and destruction of Jerusalem.
The Answer to this argument hath no hue or apparent coulorablenesse of truth. 1As 1. It respecteth onely the Church of the Jewes, why? because, it saith, The house of David, and the Inhabitants of Ierusalem, 2. because Matth. 15. 24. he saith I am not sent but to the lost sheepe of the house of Israel, and this Fountaine cannot reasonably be opened to the Gentiles, but to the Iewes, 3. It is for the Iewes encouragement, Ezr. 5. 1. and the Prophets use not to speake of the Gentiles,2 to make them equal and superior in holy priviledges to them; for it argueth Gods displeasure with the Iewes: I will move them to Iealousie with those that are no people. 4. (The word land) I will cut off the names of Idols out of the land, indefinitly put in the old Testament, notes the Land of Canaan, it was fulfilled under Antiochus, and ended with the siege and destruction of Jerusalem.