A92140:722
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.
It is true, some Popish writers, as Masius, Cornelius a lapide, Abulensis say,1 if the Canaanites would have sought peace, and embraced the worship of the true God, the Israelites would not have destroyed them,2 but the Text, Calvin and famous Papists, as Cajetanus, Swarez. Gamacha•s, and Augustine before them,3 say plainly, Israel made war against them, and Israel but defended themselves against the Canaanites. Libertines say the teaching of the Gospel, Mat. 28. and not the sword, is a means to spread the Gospel, so say we, I see no warrant we have to obtrude the Gospel in the purity thereof, upon Papists in France and Ireland: but we may lawfully avenge the blood of the people of God on Irish Murderers,4 who exercise extreme cruelty and Tyranny over persons and the Consciences of the Martyrs, and the oppressed people of God amongst the Papists.
It is true, some Popish writers, as Masius, Cornelius a lapide, Abulensis say,1 if the Canaanites would have sought peace, and imbraced the worship of the true God, the Israelites would not have destroyed them,2 but the Text, Calvin and famous Papists, as Cajetanus, Swarez. Gamacha•s, and Augustine before them,3 say plainly, Israel made warre against them, and Israel but defended themselves against the Canaanites. Libertines say the teaching of the Gospell, Mat. 28. and not the sword, is a means to spread the Gospell, so say we, I see no warrant wee have to obtrude the Gospell in the purity thereof, upon Papists in France and Ireland: but we may lawfully avenge the blood of the people of God on Irish Murtherers,