A92140:734
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.
1 That which is moral,1 and cannot be determined by the wisdom and will of man, must be determined by the revealed will of God in his word; but the punishment of a seducing Prophet, that ruineth the soul of our brother, and makes him twofold more the child of Satan than before, is moral and cannot be determined by the wisdom and will of man: Ergo, such a punishing of a seducing Prophet, must be by the revealed will of God in his word. The Proposition is proved. 1. Because God only, not Moses, nor any other law-giver under him, taketh on him to determine death to be the adulterers punishment, Levit. 20. 10. And the same he determineth to be the punishment of wilful murder, Exod. 21. 12. of smiting of the Father or Mother, v. 15. of Man-stealing, vers. 16. of Sorcery, Exod. 22. 18. of Bestiality. 19. Of sacrificing to a strange God, vers. 10. And upon the same reason, God only, not any mortal man, must determine the punishment due to such as seduce souls to eternal perdition.2 For what reason can be imagined, why God can be the only determiner of such a punishment of killing, and not for the ruining the soul and making him the child of perdition. Let not any say by this reason, to tempt to any sin, by any evil counsel •• provocation to immoderate anger or envy, should deserve death, for every tempting to sin is a ruining of the soul of such as we give bad counsel unto, and tempt to sin.
1 That which is morrall,1 and cannot be determined by the wisdome and will of man, must be determined by the revealed will of God in his word; but the punishment of a seducing Prophet, that ruineth the soule of our brother, and makes him twofold more the childe of Sathan than before, is morrall and cannot be determined by the wisdome and will of man: Ergo, such a punishing of a seducing Prophet, must be by the revealed will of God in his word. The Proposition is proved. 1. Because God only, not Moses, nor any other law-giver under him, taketh on him to determin death to be the adulterers punishment,