A92140:596
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.
The other thing (saith he) left out, 1which yet refers to all, The Covenant is, that he that swears shall by all lawful ways and means, and according to his place and calling endeavour to perform the Covenant, v. 13. to bring the Churches to uniformity, and to extirpate heresy. As for instance, it is the godly Magistrates duty, their place and calling, to send forth Ministers to the dark places of the land, and to set up lights to guide mens feet into the ways of truth and peace, and reclaim them from errors: and he cannot be urged upon his calling to punish or compel gainsayers. And the Minister is to do it in his place by exhorting, rebuking, instructing, but he is to go no further, he is not to deliver men up to judge, and be an executioner.
The other thing (saith he) left out, 1which yet referres to all, The Covenant is, that hee that sweares shall by all lawfull wayes and meanes, and according to his place and calling endeavour to performe the Covenant, v. 13. to bring the Churches to uniformity, and to extirpate heresie. As for instance, it is the godly Magistrates duty, their place and calling, to send forth Ministers to the darke places of the land, and to set up lights to guide mens feet into the wayes of truth and peace, and reclaime them from errors: and he cannot be urged upon his calling to punish or compell gainesayers. And the Minister is to doe it in his place by exhorting, rebuking, instructing, but he is to goe no further, he is not to deliver men up to judge, and be an executioner.
- 1Ancient bonds p. 68.
Answ. The words by all lawful means and ways, which ⟨p. 254⟩this man puts in Italian letters, 1