A free disputation against pretended liberty of conscience tending to resolve doubts moved

Answ. 1. Pharaohs tyranny in detaining the people in bondage, notwithstanding of the wonders that the God of the Hebrews wrought by Moses, was as doubtsome to him to be ⟨p. 285⟩Tyranny,¹ since his God-Idol of Egypt did the like wonders by the Magicians, as controversies of Religion are, and blindness in duties in the second table, when Judicial, and from the power of the prince of darkness, is as strong and may as much make men excusable, and shield them from the sword of God or man, as blindness in the duties of the first table.

Answ. 1. Pharoahs tyranny in detaining the people in bondage, notwithstanding of the wonders that the God of the Hebrews wrought by Moses, was as doubtsome to him to be ⟨p. 285⟩Tyranny,¹ since his God-Idol of Egypt did the like wonders by the Magicians, as controversies of Religion are, and blindnesse in duties in the second table, when Judiciall, and from the power of the prince of darknesse, is as strong and may as much make men excuseable, and shield them from the sword of God or man, as blindnesse in the duties of the first table.

1. 1The argument of Gamaliel owned by adversaries readers all the fundamentals of the Gospel uncertain, and topic Scepticism to all the most well settled believers.The argument of Gamaliel owned by adversaries readers all the fundamentalls of the Gospell uncertain, and topick Sc•pticisme to all the most well settled beleev•rs.

2 This Answer does oil the head, and flatter the wilful and malicious ignorance of Pharisees, who both knew Christ, and whence he was, and were convinced that the Gospel was from God, and that the miracles of Peter and John came nothing short of the Miracles of Moses, in point of glory and power, and by this all the Seducers, even such as sin against the Holy Ghost, as did these Pharisees, shall be tolerated, because we know not infallibly, but their Anti-gospel and blaspheming of God, and his son, may be the way of God, and therefore we must refrain from lifting a tongue against them, and they know not but our Gospel may be the Gospel, or it may be the divinity of devils, and by this the knowledge of the Elements and first fundamentals of the Gospel, to wit, that Jesus died, rose again, ascended to heaven, and through faith in his name, Jews and Gentiles are saved, the only doctrine for which these Apostles were persecuted, shall be mere Scepticism; and an adventuring fluctuation; we must leave to God either to reward and establish, or to annihilate or crush this way of the Apostles: we must not oppose it, because no moral man with certainty of faith can oppose the most false way, though as clear point-blank contrary to the Gospel as noon day to black midnight, but he must run the hazard of either fighting against God, or invading the chair of God, or of bringing to nought, that which God only brings to nought, and of striking, but not in faith, him whom God will have us not to strike.