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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 23: The place Acts 5. v. 34. to wit, the counsell of Gamaliel, discussed, and found nothing…
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CHAP. XXIII. The place Acts 5. v. 34. to wit, the counsel of Gamaliel, discussed, and found nothing for liberty of Conscience.
CHAP. XXIII. The place Acts 5. v. 34. to wit, the counsell of Gamaliel, discussed, and found nothing for liberty of Conscience.
The most of the strength of Master John Goodwins Argument, stands thus, Theomachia, ser. 2. 11. This doctrine, or way, is either of men or of God (saith Gamaliel.) If it he of men, you shall not need to repress it, for it will of it self come to naught; which he proves by the instances of Judas and Theudas. If it be of God, it is in vain to strive against it, for it must prevail, and the counsel of Heaven must stand; for then ye run the hazard of fighting against God, and incurring the displeasure of the Romans, by whose courtesy and mere grace you have the liberty of capital punishments.
THe most of the strength of Master John Goodwins Argument, stands thus, Theomachia, ser. 2. 11. This doctrine, or way, is either of men or of God (saith Gamaliel.) If it he of men, you shall not need to represse it, for it will of it selfe come to naught; which he proves by the instances of Judas and Theudas. If it be of God, it is in vaine to strive against it, for it must prevaile, and the counsell of Heaven must stand; for then ye run the hazard of fighting against God, and incurring the displeasure of the Romans, by whose courtesie and meere grace you have the liberty of capitall punishments.