A92140:551
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
Chapter 20: The parable of the Wheat and the Tares, discussed and cleared.
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3 By the tares, Christ understands all the children of the devil, ver. 38. and those are the tares gathered and burnt in the fire, ver. 40. all things that offend, and they which do iniquity, ver. 41. That shall be cast into a furnace of fire, where there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. 42. and they are such as are opposed to the righteous, who shall shine […] the sun in the Kingdom of their Father. Now 1. The righteous that shall shine in heaven, are not the sound in the faith, only opposed to heretics, except we say none shall be cast in the furnace but heretics. 2. Heretics are innocent men (say Libertines) and not doers of iniquity, as the •ares are called, v. 41. 3. Nor are heretics the only children of the devil, ver. 38. And the ill seed sown by the envious man; and the only seed of Satan, if the field be the Church, if we would believe Libertines, as it is not, but exponed by one Saviour to be the world, ver. 38. Yet the false teachers would be but the least part of the visible Church, in comparison of the ignorants, the Atheists, the murderers, adulterers, ⟨p. 236⟩[…] ⟨p. 237⟩[…] ⟨p. 238⟩and so not able to come up to complete the visible Church as a company of good and bad,1 that is, of heretics and true teachers, for these would not make the quarter of the Church, yet Christ makes all the Church of wheat and tares.
3 By the tares, Christ understands all the children of the devil, ver. 38. and those are the tares gathered and burnt in the fire, ver. 40. all things that offend, and they which doe iniquity, ver. 41. That shall be casten into a furnace of fire, where there shal be wailing and gnashing of teeth. 42. and they are such as are opposed to the righteous, who shall shine 〈…〉 the sunne in the Kingdom of their Father. Now 1. The righteous that shall shine in heaven, are not the sonnd in the faith, only opposed to hereticks, except we say none shall be casten in the furnace but hereticks. 2. Hereticks are innocent men (say Libertines) and not doers of iniquity, as the ares are called, v. 41. 3. Nor are hereticks the only children of the devill, ver. 38. And the ill seede sowne by the envious man; and the onely seede of Sathan, if the field bee the Church, if wee would beleeve Libertines, as it is not, but exponed by one Saviour to be the world, ver. 38. Yet the false teachers would be but the least part of the visible Church, in comparison of the ignorants, the Atheists, the murtherers, adulterers,