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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
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.
CHAP. XXIV. Whether punishing of seducing Teachers, be inconsistent with the meekness of Christ, place Luke 9. 54. discussed.
CHAP. XXIV. Whether punishing of seducing Teachers, be inconsistent with the meeknesse of Christ, place Luke 9. 54. discussed.
Libertines cry much for the mansuetude and clemency of our Saviour Christ to be a screen and shield betwixt false teachers and the sword. 1So Arminians, Apolog. c. 24. fo. 279. If Christ will not permit to his Disciples a desire of punishing, out of zeal and love to Christ, to whom the Samaritans denied lodging, far less will he permit Christians to punish Heretics for their conscience only.2 But Christ proves the former to come from a spirit not such as was in Elijah; 1. That spirit is sharp and bitter. 2. tending to destroy lives, which I came to save. 3. not acceptable to me, in that you would destroy for Religion, and this is against all cruelty for Religion. So Vaticanus, Num. 116. So Monfortius. So Mimus Cels.
LIbertines cry much for the mansuetude and clemency of our Saviour Christ to be a skreen and shield betwixt false teachers and the sword. 1So Arminians, Apolog. c. 24. fo. 279. If Christ will not permit to his Disciples a desire of punishing, out of zeale and love to Christ, to whom the Samaritans denyed lodging, far lesse will he permit Christians to punish Hereticks for their conscience onely.2 But Christ proves the former to come from a spirit not such as was in Elias; 1. That spirit is sharp and bitter. 2. tending to destroy lives, which I came to save. 3. not acceptable to me, in that you would destroy for Religion, and this is against all cruelty for Religion. So Vaticanus, Num. 116. So Monfortius. So Mimus Cels.