A92140:519
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
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7 To say the light, and law of nature is the Judges only compass he must sail by, and that he must punish no sins, but such as are against the law of nature. 1. It pulls the book of the law of God, yea, the Bible out of the Kings hand, that contains greater deeps then the law of nature can reach, contrary to the word of God, Deut. 17. 18, 19, 20. Deut. 17. 10. 11, 12. For the King, as the King, should have the book of the law with him on the throne, to be his rule, Deut. 17. 18. Josh. 1. 8. 2. This rule hinders not but the King and Ruler may judge ill doers so far as the light, and law of nature will go along with him. Yet the Objector will be unwilling the Ruler take away the head of a seducer, that should say, and teach men with Caligula, there is no God, Chance made all, and rules all: we want not such blasphemous impostors as these.
7 To say the light, and law of nature is the Judges only compasse hee must sayl by, and that hee must punish no sinnes, but such as are against the law of nature. 1. It pulls the booke of the law of God, yea, the Bible out of the Kings hand, that containes greater deepes then the law of nature can reach, contrary to the word of God, Deut. 17. 18, 19, 20. Deut. 17. 10. 11, 12. For the King, as the King, should have the booke of the law with him on the throne, to be his rule, Deut. 17. 18. Josh. 1. 8. 2. This rule hinders not but the King and Ruler may judge ill doers so farre as the light, and law of nature will goe along with him. Yet the Objector will be unwilling the Ruler take away the head of a seducer, that should say, and teach men with Caligula, there is no God, Chance made all, and rules all: we want not such blasphemous impostors as these.