A92140:727
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.
So Timotheus Colo•, Bishop of Constantinople, under Anastius first Emperor, was an Euty•hen, and cursed such as rejected the Synod of Chalcedon, and before the Emperor cursed such as approved the Synod of Chalcedon; so Theod. Anagnostes, Petrus Mongus, Bishop of Alexandria under Zeno the Emperor, was an Eutichen, then again Orthodox, a little after ⟨p. 306⟩he rejected the Council of Chalcedon; a little after in an Epistle to Acacius Bishop of Alexandria, he professed the sound faith, and denied that he rejected the council of Chalcedon; again he rejects that council, and the sound faith;1 therefore Evagrius tells him, [Greek or Hebrew] A shoe, for every foot, a turn-coat, and a time-server. Ergo, such heretics, beside that they have not been innocent and godly (as Arminians say) they feared the sword of the Magistrate. But as touching the practice of Emperors, and the Imperial Laws for ratifying Church constitutions, there be but too many of them; as also for gathering Councils; which proveth the coactive power of Princes, Kings, and Emperors, over heretics and seducing teachers. Constantius, I grant, made a Law, that some godly men should be tolerated, ut pa•em cum fidelibus i• qui errant (he saith not heretics) pacis est quietis fruitionem gaudentes accipiant. Eusebius in vita Constan. and though the Emperor Grotian decreed, Ut quam quisque vellet Religionem sequerentur, That all Religions should be free, he had much ad• in wars with the Goths, who wasted Thracia, and was therefore careful that Ambrose should draw up a short confession, yet did he except from the Toleration the Manichees, the Phocinians, the Eunomians. But see, codice prima lege. Cunctos populos de sum. trinit. Martianus ibid lege. 4. Synod Chalcedo, Leo imperator, cons. 15. C. Const. 17. Heracl•us Imperator, const. 1. de fide Justinianus Novellus 123. c. 32. Novel 137. c. 6. Honorius, l. 4. c. 55. Eccle. Valentinianus, l. 9. de Episc. cler. Novel. 123. c. 18. Novella 123. c. 29. &c. Le. const. 87. Novel. 131. c. 4. Eusebius Pamphil de vita, Constan. l. 3. c. 13. Surius tom. 2. Concil. c. 20. p. 362. Codic. l. 1. Tit. de heret. lex 2. 16. Justinian codex l. 1. Tit. 4. de sum. Trinit lex 2. Surius concil. tom. 2. p. 469 421, 494. & tom. 2. p. 668, 669, 670. Socra Scholastic. his. l. 2. c. 37. Nicepher hist. l. 9. c. 4. Contur. Magdeburque 4 col. 558.