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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 21: Of the Samaritans, and of no compelling of Heathens. How the Covenant bindeth us.
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.
Answ. There is no provision against them, Papists will say Amen to tolerate them.
Answ. There is no provision against them, Papists will say Amen to tollerate them.
2. There is no provision made to try Socinians and Papists whether they be such or no, but the old way of trying them by the Law removed, and no new one established, then are they the same way tolerated, that the Familists, Antinomians, Arminians, Libertines, Enthusiasts, Antiscripturists, Sceptists, Seekers, are tolerated, who all will acquiesce to the Ordinance, as I conceive, and within these few years would have rejoiced at less then the half of it.
2. There is no provision made to try Socinians and Papists whether they be such or no, but the old way of trying them by the Law removed, and no new one established, then are they the same way tollerated, that the Familists, Aminomians, Arminians, Libertines, Enthysiasts, Antiscripturists, Sceptists, Seekers, are tollerated, who all will acquiesce to the Ordinance, as I conceive, and within these few yeares would have rejoyced at lesse then the halfe of it.
A certain Author hath written a Treatise called Ancient bonds, 1in which there is little antiquity, less […], no impartiality, much ignorance, for he neither doth, nor can so much as state the question. And he faith 1. We are to endeavour ⟨p. 252⟩Reformation of Religion in the three Kingdoms not simply, but according to the word of God, 2