A92140:515
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.
2 Because the Christian Magistrate, as the Christian Magistrate, ⟨p. 224⟩and even lustered with Christianity, which is not in every Magistrate, yet operatur [Greek or Hebrew] in externals and only can as a Christian Magistrate proceed according as the heresy is proved by witness, or confessed, and obstinately maintained by the Heretic, and all this is external, and doth but externally, and in external means promove the Churches spiritual good, and the mediatory Kingdom, and it is such a promoving as Christ may well want, though ordinarily he cannot want pastors and teachers.
2 Because the Christian Magistrate, as the Christian Magistrate, ⟨p. 224⟩and even lustered with Christianity, which is not in every Magistrate, yet operatur 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 in externals and onely can as a Christian Magistrate proceed according as the heresie is proved by witnesse, or confessed, and obstinately maintained by the Heretick, and all this is externall, and doth but externally, and in external means promove the Churches spirituall good, and the mediatory Kingdome, and it is such a promoving as Christ may wel want, though ordinarily he cannot want pastors and teachers.
Quest. But doth not the Mediator Christ, as Mediator, promove his Mediatory Kingdom in, and through the Christian Prince, as his instrument, subordinate to him as Mediator?
Quest. But doth not the Mediator Christ, as Mediator, promove his Mediatory Kingdome in, and through the Christian Prince, as his instrument, subordinate to him as Mediator?