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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 for his power to convene Councils, as the Nicene, by Constanti, Euseb. l. 3. c. 6. Sozom, l. 1. c. 17. So•rat. l. 1. c. 6. Ruff. l. 10. c. 1. Theodor. l. 1. c. 7. the Council of Tyre by Constant. Eusebius, de vit. cons. l. 4. c. 41. Sozom. l. 1. c. 9. Theodosius elder, made a Law of death against the Anabaptists, and banished Eu••mius ⟨p. 307⟩Socrat. l. 7. c. 12. It is true, Constantinus and Licinius, as Eusebius tells us, l. 10. c. 5. say in a Law, now therefore we freely will and command, That every man have a free liberty to observe the Christian Religion, and that, without any grief or molestation, he may be suffered to do the same. But the practice of heathen Emperors, is no rule.
So for his power to conveene Councels, as the Nicen, by Constanti, Euseb. l. 3. c. 6. Sozom, l. 1. c. 17. So•rat. l. 1. c. 6. Ruff. l. 10. c. 1. Theodor. l. 1. c. 7. the Councell of Tyre by Constant. Eusebius, de vit. cons. l. 4. c. 41. Sozom. l. 1. c. 9. Theodosius elder, made a Law of death against the Anabaptists, and banished Eu••mius ⟨p. 307⟩Socrat. l. 7. c. 12. It is true, Constantinus and Licinius, as Eusebius tels us, l. 10. c. 5. say in a Law, now therefore we freely will and command, That every man have a free liberty to observe the Christian Religion, and that, without any griefe or molestation, he may be suffered to do the same. But the practice of heathen Emperous, is no rule.
2. God opened their hearts to make these Laws in favour of Christians.
2. God opened their hearts to make these Lawes in favour of Christians.