A92140:509
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.
Object. But the Magistrate as the Magistrate punisheth Gospel heretics, ergo, All Magistrates, even heathen Magistrates fail against their Magistratical duty, if they punish not Gospel-heretics, and their ignorance cannot excuse them.
Object. But the Magistrate as the Magistrate punisheth Gospelheretickes, ergo, All Magistrates, even heathen Magistrates faile against their Magistraticall duty, if they punish not Gospel-heretickes, and their ignorance cannot excuse them.
Answ. The Antecedent is not simply true, every Magistrate ⟨p. 223⟩as a Magistrate sinneth against his office, if he punish not some false teachers, if convened before him and convinced. But every Magistrate, as a Magistrate, punisheth not every heretic against the Gospel: but only such a Magistrate as heareth the Gospel, punisheth such a Gospel Heretic. We say that Magistrates by virtue of their office make laws for no transporting of monies out of England, but you cannot infer that if Magistrates did this by their Magistratical power, then Magistrates, as Magistrates; and so all Magistrates of India, and all Heathen Magistrates ought to make laws that no money be transported out of England; it is no consequent at all, for though English Magistrates make such laws by their Magistratical power, yet they do this as such Magistrates, not as Magistrates; thousands such we may allege.
Answ. The Antecedent is not simply true, every Magistrate ⟨p. 223⟩as a Magistrate sinneth against his office, if he punish not some false teachers, if convened before him and convinced. But every Magistrate, as a Magistrate, punisheth not every heretick against the Gospell: but onely such a Magistrate as heareth the Gospell, punisheth such a Gospell Heretick. We say that Magistrates by vertue of their office make lawes for no transporting of monies out of England, but you cannot inferre that if Magistrates did this by their Magistraticall power, then Magistrates, as Magistrates; and so all Magistrates of India, and all Heathen Magistrates ought to make lawes that no mony bee transported out of England; it is no consequent at all, for though English Magistrates make such lawes by their Magistraticall power, yet they doe this as such Magistrates, not as Magistrates; thousands such wee may alleadge.