A92140:692
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.
Answ. 1. Theophilactus saith, it is an example of blind anger or zeal, the Samaritans did sooner believe by clemency than by fire. But 1 to consume a whole City, men, ⟨p. 289⟩mothers, and sucking children, and many innocent people not for Idolatry,1 there was need of an express Law of God, and (as Hieronimus saith on the place) the known will of God, though there was a Law, Deut. 13. of destroying a City that maintained Idolaters, that tempted to follow strange Gods, and kept out against all Israel, and so defied Israel and their God: Yet we find not the executing of such a temporary judicial Law, without asking at the mouth of God. Here the fiery Disciples shape a way of their own to Christ, in revenge, in asking fire from Heaven.
Answ. 1. Theophilactus saith, it is an example of blinde anger or zeale, the Samaritans did sooner believe by clemency than by fire. But 1 to consume a whole City, men, ⟨p. 289⟩mothers, and sucking children, and many innocent people not for Idolatry,1 there was need of an expresse Law of God, and (as Hieronimus saith on the place) the known will of God, though there was a Law, Deut. 13. of destroying a City that maintained Idolaters, that tempted to follow strange Gods, and kept out against all Israel, and so defied Israel and their God: Yet we finde not the executing of such a temporary judiciall Law, without asking at the mouth of God. Here the fiery Disciples shape a way of their owne to Christ, in revenge, in asking fire from Heaven.
- 1Hieronimus in Locu. ut Apostolicus sermo haberet efficientiam voluntatis est domini; nisi enim ille jussetit frustra dicunt Apostoli, ut ignis discenda•.