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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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Answ. There be nothing here but vain and forced conjectures, Christ expounds the wheat of the children of the Kingdom. Celsus of the doctrine of the Gospel Christ makes the field the world Celsus makes the field the Church, and when he hath fancied these dreams, contrary to Christs exposition, he goes to the time, when the Gospel was first preached; which hath nothing to do with the text; for when God made men good, Satan came and sowed tares, and corrupted men, and turned them into Apostates from God. And ever, since the beginning in the world, there hath been a mixture of cha••e and corn, fishes good and bad, and of the children of God ⟨p. 243⟩and children of Satan, and the Saints must let both grow till harvest, that is, they must not stumble nor murmur at God, but submit to his wisdom, who will have this mixture till the last separation of men for heaven, and the barn of the great husbandman, for hell and the furnace, in which all things that offend are cast.
Answ. There be nothing here but vain and forced conjectures, Christ expounds the wheat of the children of the Kingdome. Celsus of the doctrine of the Gospel Christ makes the field the world Celsus makes the field the Church, and when he hath fancied these dreames, contrary to Christs exposition, he goes to the time, when the Gospel was first preached; which hath nothing to doe with the text; for when God made men good, Sathan came and sowed tares, and corrupted men, and turned them into Apostates from God. And ever, since the beginning in the world, there hath been a mixture of cha••e and corne, fishes good and bad, and of the children of God ⟨p. 243⟩and children of Sathan, and the Saints must let both grow till harvest, that is, they must not stumble nor murmure at God, but submit to his wisdome, who will have this mixture till the last separation of men for heaven, and the barne of the great husbandman, for hell and the furnace, in which all things that offend are casten.