A92140:508
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.
Answ. It follows not; for nothing follows, but, its a sin in an Indian Prince, and he—sinneth against his Magistratical office in that he punisheth not an Indian false-teacher, who teacheth against the Law of nature, because an Indian should not worship the Devil; but the Indian Ruler invincibly ignorant of the Gospel, sinneth not against his office as a Magistrate, because he punisheth not a Gospel-heretic, for he is not obliged to every Magistratical act as a Magistrate, not to those of which he is invincibly and faultlessly ignorant, as an Indian husband and Master invincibly ignorant of the Gospel sins not against the duty of a husband and head of a family,1 though he teach not wife, children, and servants, the principles of the Gospel, which a Christian husband and head of a family is obliged to do, not as a husband and head of a family simply, but as such a husband and head as heareth the Gospel, and so either heareth and knoweth, or may hear these Gospel principles, if he were not thereof ignorant through his own sinful neglect.
Answ. It follows not; for nothing follows, but, its a sin in an Indian Prince, and he—sinneth against his Magistraticall office in that he punisheth not an Indian false-teacher, who teacheth against the Law of nature, because an Indian should not worship the Devill; but the Indian Ruler invincibly ignorant of the Gospel, sinneth not against his office as a Magistrate, because he punisheth not a Gospel-hereticke, for he is not obliged to every Magistraticall act as a Magistrate, not to those of which he is invincibly and faultlessely ignorant, as an Indian husband and Master invincibly ignorant of the Gospel sinnes not against the duty of a husband and head of a family,1 though he teach not wife, children, and servants, the principles of the Gospel, which a Christian husband and head of a family is obliged to doe, not as a husband and head of a family simply, but as such a husband and head as heareth the Gospel, and so either heareth and knoweth, or may heare these Gospel principles, if he were not thereof ignorant through his owne sinfull neglect.
- 1How Christ taketh service of a Christian magistrate.