A92140:557
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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2 He saith, that which was Christs principal work, the preaching of the word of the Kingdom, that must be meant here by the seed, and wheat. It is a false proposition, and a connection of hay and sand. 2. Christ came to save the lost, to give his life a ransom for many. Ergo, by this argument the good seed should hold forth the redeemed of God. 2. The assumption is false, to wit, that Christ came to be a King, yea, and as principally to be a Priest, to offer himself for the sins of the world, to give his life for his sheep, and goats must rather be meant by Wheat and Tares then any other thing.
2 He saith, that which was Christs principall worke, the preaching of the word of the Kingdome, that must be meant here by the seed, and wheate. It is a false proposition, and a connexion of hay and sand. 2. Christ came to save the lost, to give his life a ransome for many. Ergo, by this argument the good seed should hold forth the redeemed of God. 2. The assumption is false, to wit, that Christ came to be a King, yea, and as principally to be a Priest, to offer himself for the sinnes of the world, to give his life for his sheep, and goates must rather be meant by Wheat and Tares then any other thing.
3 By this argument Christ should propons no Parables, but all must aim at good seed and doctrine, what say we then of the parable of the five Talents? The thief in the night? ⟨p. 240⟩Of the letting out of the Vineyard to those that killed the servants, and the heir, and brought forth ill fruit? And many other parables respecting our Christian conversation, and sober and vigilant walking, rather then the doctrine of the Gospel, though that be the rule of all Christian walking.
3 By this argument Christ should propons no Parables, but all must aime at good seed and doctrine, what say we then of the parable of the five Talents? The theefe in the night? ⟨p. 240⟩Of the letting out of the Vineyard to those that killed the servts, and the heire, and brought forth ill fruite? And many other parables respecting our Christian conversation, and sober and vigilant walking, rather then the doctrine of the Gospell, though that bee the rule of all Christian walking.