A92140:745
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.
not can we make war against them, because they are Idolaters, and follow a false Religion; nor was Idolatry the ground of the war that Israel raised against the Ca•aanitos and other Nations.1 To all which I add the words of Jer. Taylor. The best and ablest Doctors in Christendom have been deceived actually in […] of Religion, in that all sorts of Christians dissent from the error• of Papias, Irenaeus, Lactantius, Justin Martyr, Cyprian, Firmilian, &c. Ergo, by Tailors sentence, we are not rest, much upon the Fathers, whether they be for or against liberty of conscience.
not can we make warre against them, because they are Idolators, and follow a false Religion; nor was Idolatry the ground of the warre that Israel raised against the Ca•aanitos and other Nations.1 To all which I adde the words of Ier. Taylor. The best and ablest Doctors in Christendome have been deceived actually in 〈…〉 of Religion, in that all sorts of Christians dissent from the error• of Papias, Irenaeus, Lactantius, Iustin Martyr, Cyprian, Firmilian, &c. Ergo, by Taylors sentence, we are not rest, much upon the Fathers, whether they be for or against liberty of conscience.
- 1Taylor liberty of prophesying sect. 13. p. 13.Taylor liberty of prophecying sect. 13. p. 13.
For course to be taken with Pagans (to speak by the way) all that Lactantius, l. 5. c. 20. Tertulli ad Scap•lam, c. 2. Augustine, ser. 6. de verb. dom. c. 7. cont. lite▪ Petitian lib. 2. c. 83. we approve, and what famous Schoolmen, […], Thomas, Bannes, Durandus, Palud Richardus, […], Paluda, and that of Augustine s. 6. de verb Dom. c. 7. Glandiendum est Paganu, ut audiant veritatem, in Christianis vero secanda putredo. Pagans must be allured, and not compelled by Wars to the faith. Because the just cause of War must either be an open breach of Nations against the Law of nature; for it must be a sin, of which a multitude may easily be, or are convinced of; as is clear in the Amalekites, and all the Nations who invaded Israel,