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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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3. It holdeth, That when Judges are not infallibly persuaded, (as these were, not knowing the way of Christ) to coerce any Religion or way never so false, is persecution, straining of free consciences, and fighting against God:
3. It holdeth, That when Judges are not infallibly perswaded, (as these were, not knowing the way of Christ) to coerce any Religion or way never so false, is persecution, straining of free consciences, and fighting against God:
I Judge John Goodwin hath ploughed with the Heifer of Vaticanus, who writes a virulent piece against Calvin, and condemns the burning of that Monster. Michael Servetus brings the same argument.1 Vaticanus (some think it was Castalio, adversus Calvinum) Num. 10: and Bellius, arg. 5.
I Judge John Goodwin hath ploughed with the Heifer of Vaticanus, who writes a virulent peece against Caloin, and condemnes the burning of that Monster. Michael Servetus brings the same argument.1 Vaticanus (some thinke it was Castalio, adversus Calvinum) Num. 10: and Bellius, arg. 5.
- 1Calvin censures both Gamaliel and John Goodwin Commen. in Acts 5. 34. Caeterum si quis omnino rite expendat, indigna est homine prudente sententia (Gamalielis) Scio q••dem a multis haberi pro oraculo sc. eos (Anabaptistas) perp•ram judicare vel hinc satis clarè pate•, quod hoc modo abstinendum esse ab omnibus paenis nec amplius ullum maleficium corrigendum, verè quidem dicitur non posse ullis consilus dissolvi quod ex Deo est; quod autem ex hominibus minus fimum esse quam ut consistat, sed hinc perperam colligitur, cessandum, potius videndum quid Deus nobis mandet. vult autem maleficia a nobis coerceri, in hunc finem instituit Magistratus eosque gl dio armavit,