A92140:733
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.
Honorius made laws against Donatists of fining and of banishing preachers of Donatism. Martianus did the like. The like saith Nazianz▪ 1of Theodosius the great. Banishment and other punishment, the Emperors inflicted upon Arrius, Macedonius, Nestorius, Futiches and their followers. Which the Arch-Bishop of Spalato M•de dominis granteth; though he says Augustine excepteth capital punishment, for such (saith he) he will not have to be inflicted for the conscience, which is a manifest depraving of the mind of Augustine, who will have such punishment according to the quality of the fault inflicted on them,2 as upon Sorcerers and Murderers. Let Augustine be considered in these and other places,3 after he retracted his too meek sentence, That they should not be punished at all. Alexander Alexandrinus said, Arrius and his followers ought to be punished with excommunication, and a curse, Theodoret. lib. 1. c. 4. But for the point in hand the Christian Magistrate is tied and obliged to these punishments ⟨p. 309⟩to be inflicted for moral offences, that the Law of God hath ordained, at least in nature: I prove.
Honorius made lawes against Donatists of fining and of banishing preachers of Donatisme. Martianus did the like. The like saith Nazianz▪ 1of Theodosius the great. Banishment and other punishment, the Emperours inflicted upon Arrius, Macedonius, Nestorius, Futiches and their followers. Which the Arch-Bishop of Spalato M•de dominis granteth; though he sayes Augustine excepteth capitall punishment, for such (saith he) he will not have to be inflicted for the conscience, which is a manifest depraving of the mind of Augustine, who will have such punishment according to the quality of the fault inflicted on them,2