A92140:693
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
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2. Neither here, nor in the case of Elijah, was Idolatry or false worship the quarrel, but denying of an act of humanity to Christ, to wit, not lodging of him; and because Christ would have nothing done or said against Samaria, for this shall Libertines (I must use this name, because of the dangerous error) infer upon the same grounds of Christs meekness, that therefore Pastors ought not sharply to rebuke,1 and Magistrates may not in a well ordered City, reprove and punish such as refuse an open Inn to innocent strangers, against the Law of nature. For this conclusion follows as well as theirs.
2. Neither here, nor in the case of Elias, was Idolatry or false worship the quarrel, but denying of an act of humanity to Christ, to wit, not lodging of him; and because Christ would have nothing done or said against Samaria, for this shall Libertines (I must use this name, because of the dangerous error) infer upon the same grounds of Christs meeknesse, that therefore Pastors ought not sharply to rebuke,1 and Magistrates may not in a well ordered City, reprove and punish such as refuse an open Inne to innocent strangers, against the Law of nature. For this conclusion followes as well as theirs.
3. Elijah desired not fire to come down and burn Cities, men, women, and sucking children, but fifty and fifty murderers that came to kill him, or then to bring him to a Tyrant, who against all Law, sought his life, and so the case was not alike.