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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.
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2. You write and preach that the government Presbyterian, is Popish, Antichristian, more tyrannical then that of Babel, of Egypt, so all your way, and particularly Mr. Burton in his conformities deformity, and your Independents in the Assembly, yet you did swear to endeavour its preservation, and all the Independents in both Houses spake against it as tyrannical, and have voted to clog it with Erastianism, I would ⟨p. 261⟩believe Erastus, 1if he had sworn to endeavour the preservation of it, better then your oath. I think Pagans would not swear to endeavour the preservation of any religious way which with tongue, pen, laws, and sword, they endeavour to undo and extirpate▪ see if distinctions will defend it against the common enemy, and whether these words, according to the word of God expounded by you, will save you from the quarrel and wrath of God for a broken Covenant? Pass over the Isles, and go to Turkey, to America, and see if such a thing as this hath been?
2. You write and preach that the government Presbyterian, is Popish, Antichristian, more tyrannicall then that of Babel, of Aegypt, so all your way, and particularly Mr. Burton in his conformities deformity, and your Independents in the Assembly, yet you did sweare to endeavour its preservation, and all the Independents in both Houses spake against it as tyrannicall, and have voted to clog it with Erastianisme, I would ⟨p. 261⟩beleeve Erastus, 1if he had sworne to endeavour the preservation of it, better then your oath. I think Pagans would not sweare to endeavour the preservation of any religious way which with tongue, pen, lawes, and sword, they endeavour to undoe and extirpate▪ see if distinctions will defend it against the common enemy, and whether these words, according to the word of God expounded by you, will save you from the quarrell and wrath of God for a broken Covenant? Passe over the Isles, and goe to Turkey, to America, and see if such a thing as this hath been?