A92140:522
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 Whatever people resisted the Roman Empire and their bloody Emperor Nero, and others, in all their bloody Edicts against innocent Christians, (for he is the Magistrate here spoken of, saith the Objector) they receive not damnation, not do they resist the ordinance of God.
2 Whatever people resisted the Roman Empire and their bloody Emperor Nero, and others, in all their bloody Edicts against innocent Christians, (for he is the Magistrate here spoken of, sayth the Objector) they receive not damnation, not doe they resist the ordinance of God.
3. The Roman Emperor and Senate in their Laws and ⟨p. 227⟩Edicts, were a terror to good works, not to evil, they rewarded those that persecuted and killed Christians, and those that shed the blood of innocent people that they might be tyrannous conquerors of them; and made them commanders in war, and hired them so to do: then the Roman Magistrate as he actually governed, and made neither Law• nor Edicts against spreading of errors and heresies cannot be the Magistrate here spoken of.
3. The Roman Emperour and Senate in their Laws and ⟨p. 227⟩Edicts, were a terror to good workes, not to evill, they rewarded those that persecuted and killed Christians, and those that shed the blood of innocent people that they might bee tyrannous conquerours of them; and made them commanders in warre, and hyred them so to doe: then the Roman Magistrate as he actually governed, and made neither Law• nor Edicts against spreading of errors and heresies cannot be the Magistrate here spoken of.