A92140:641
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
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.
11 And many being of divers Religions, must need give themselves to a detestable indifferency and neutrality, as touching the Common cause of God. Since it cannot be the common cause of God, but of Satan, and of forcing conscience by persecution to them. Many men, yea, its the cause of God to many, to hate and persecute the Gospel by this.
11 And many being of divers Religions, must need give themselves to a detestable indifferency and newtrality, as touching the Common cause of God. Since it cannot be the common cause of God, but of Sathan, and of forcing conscience by persecution to them. Many men, yea, its the cause of God to many, to hate and persecute the Gospell by this.
12 By which means every man may resile from this blessed union and conjunction, so far must he be from zealous and constant continuing therein all the days of his life, for Parliamentary authority frees them to embrace any new Religion, contrary to the Protestant Religion.
12 By which meanes every man may resile from this blessed union and conjunction, so far must he be from zealous and constant continuing therein all the dayes of his life, for Parliamentary authority frees them to imbrace any new Religion, contrary to the Protestant Religion.
13 And to what Church, Sect, or Religious society can the Christian Magistrate be a nurse-father by his office? is it not to the one, only true Church of Christ, that professeth the sound faith? certain the Scripture saith, as the sons of strangers shall build the walls of the true Church, so Kings shall minister unto her, Isaiah 60. 10. And she must suck the breasts of Kings, Isaiah 6. 16. which evinceth, that Kings, as Kings are by their Office to do some princely and royal acts of justice and favour for the good of the true Church, and true Religion: then must either the King by Office be indifferent and neutral to all other Religions and Sects, which must be inconsistent with his duty, as nurse-father to the Church, Isaiah 49. 23. whose part it is, that according to his place he take care that the children suck not poison for milk; or he must be neutral to all Religions except to the only true Religion, though he himself be an Arian, or Socinian, or of opinion that all Religions are to be tolerated by the Christian Magistrate, in which regard, it would seem, such are not capable to be Magistrates in a Christian society.