A92140:716
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. No man but sees the punishment of theft is of common moral equity, and obligeth all Nations, but the manner or degree of punishment is more positive: as to punish Theft by restoring four Oxen for the stealing of one Ox, doth not so oblige all Nations, but some other bodily punishment, as whipping, may be used against Thieves. Mr. Jo. Weemes, vo. 3. ca. 38. of the judicial Law, The determination (saith he) in Moses Law judicial, was divini juris, and they had greater force to bind the Sons, than any Municipal Laws have to bind Subjects new, in regard they were given by God himself; yet these judicial Laws (saith he) commanded the outward man, whereas the moral Law called [Greek or Hebrew] ignea lex, Deu. 33. This fiery law pierceth the heart.
4. No man but sees the punishment of theft is of common morall equity, and obligeth all Nations, but the manner or degree of punishment is more positive: as to punish Theft by restoring foure Oxen for the stealing of one Oxe, doth not so oblige all Nations, but some other bodily punishment, as whipping, may be used against Theeves. Mr. Jo. Weemes, vo. 3. ca. 38. of the judiciall Law, The determination (saith he) in Moses Law judiciall, was divini juris, and they had greater force to binde the Sonnes, than any Municipall Lawes have to binde Subjects new, in regard they were given by God himselfe; yet these judiciall Lawes (saith he) commanded the outward man, whereas the morall Law called 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 ignea lex, Deu. 33. This fiery law pierceth the heart.
Gamachaeus saith,1 Judicials and Ceremonials are immediately deduced out of the principles of the Law of nature▪ by way of a more remote and obscure conclusion.