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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
Chapter 16: Prophesies in the Old Testament, especially Zach. 13. 1, 2, 3, 4. 5, 6. for punishing f…
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Answ. Though Turnovius expound piercing through, by preaching death from the Law,1 and terrifying, yet since the Objector weakly and groundlessly (as we saw) will restrict this Prophecy to the Church of the Jews, and a poor short time, when this zeal endured. It must, with his leave, be meant (in that day) that is, in the time of the Gospel, as in other places it must be taken, as Jer. 50. 4. v. 20. Jer. 31. 29. Jer. 33. 15. 16. Joel▪ 2. 29. Zach. 8. 23. for so prophesies of Christs Kingdom are expounded to have their accomplishment in Christs Gospel-Kingdom, and then the Law, piercing through, and terrifying, must be in use under the ⟨p. 214⟩Gospel, which is all we crave; therefore the Objector adds to the words of the threatening; thou shalt not live (to wit before God, and so leaps from the threatening of the sword of the Magistrate, Deut. 13. which he saith is the sense of the place, to the second death, and a dying before God.
Answ. Though Turnovius expound piercing through, by preaching death from the Law,1 and terrifying, yet since the Objector weakly and groundlesly (as we saw) will r•strict this Prophesie to the Church of the Jewes, and a poore short time, when this zeale endured. It must, with his leave, be meant (in that day) that is, in the time of the Gospel, as in other places it must be taken, as Ier. 50. 4. v. 20. Ier. 31. 29.