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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.
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.
2.1 For the time of sowing wheat and tares, it hath been from the beginning since there was a field, that is a world, and the parable that speaks of sowing wheat, and the envious mans sowing of tares immediately after, is but borrowed from men, as the sleeping of a husbandman, which may as soon prove, that he that watcheth over Israel doth both slumber and sleep, and that the sowing of tares, and of the sons of Satan in the world, is as much without the foreknowledge, counsel, and providence of God, as the husbandman is ignorant of his enemies sowing of tares in his field, when he is in a deep sleep as it may (if all the joints of the text be thus squeezed to blood) it can prove that heretics are to be tolerated, and that only tares are sown, when the husbandman sleeps, in regard that Satan sows wicked men and corrupteth them, beside and against the decree and irresistible will of God, nor does the text bear that with every new sowing of wheat, there goeth the immediate sowing of heresies and tares, which though it may have a truth in it, yet it hath no ground from this text, and Celsus shall never prove it, nor any Libertine for him.
2.1 For the time of sowing wheat and tares, it hath beene from the beginning since there was a field, that is a world, and the parable that speakes of sowing wheat, and the envious mans sowing of tares immediately after, is but borrowed from men, as the sleeping of a husbandman, which may as soone prove, that he that watcheth over Israel doth both slumber and sleep, and that the sowing of tares, and of the sonnes of Sathan in the world, is as much without the foreknowledge, counsell, and providence of God, as the husbandman is ignorant of his enemies sowing of tares in his field, when he is in a deep sleep as it may (if all the joynts of the text be thus squeezed to blood) it can prove that hereticks are to be tollerated, and that onely tares are sowne, when the husbandman sleeps, in regard that Sathan sowes wicked men and corrupteth them, beside and against the decree and irresistible will of God, nor does the text beare that with every new sowing of wheat, there goeth the immediate sowing of heresies and tares, which though it may have a truth in it, yet it hath no ground from this text, and Celsus shall never prove it, nor any Libertine for him.
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