A92140:706
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.
4 To judge before the day, 11 Cor 4. 5. is not to forbid all judging of heretics, for except we judge them to be heretics, how shall we beware of them, as Christ biddeth us, Mat. 7. 15. and eschew them, Rom. 16. 17. And not bid them God speed, nor receive them into our houses, Joh. 2. 10. And avoid them, Tit. 3. 10. and far less must a judicial trial of Jezebel be forbidden to the Church of Thiatira, Rev. 2. 20. but it is rash judging of hidden things, as Calvin, P. Martyr, Bullinger, Murlorat, Pareus, Beza, and the place expounds it self, for the Corinthians crowned false teachers, defamed the sound teachers, which was to anticipate God, for it is the Lord who brings to light the hidden things of darkness, and makes manifest the counsels of the heart, and then every man shall have praise of God, so ⟨p. 295⟩he manifestly forbiddeth peremptory judging, proper to God, and judging upon dark grounds known to God only, the words in the letter [Greek or Hebrew] Judge nothing before the time, are brought by Anabaptists to prove that no Christian should be a Judge, and so to judge a Murderer, is to usurp the place of God: so the places, Mat. 7. 2. and Rom. 14. are brought by Libertines and Anabaptists, to prove that all judging is unlawful, whether of false teachers or malefactors, which is but an abusing of the word.
4 To judge before the day, 11 Cor 4. 5. is not to forbid al judging of hereticks, for except we judge them to be hereticks, how shall we beware of them, as Christ biddeth us,