A92140:746
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.
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, Josh. 11. v. 19, 20. or then in a visible Church, it must be for manifest Apostasy from the Covenant of God, and […] Religion, as the new Altar supposed to be erected by the two Trib•• and ⟨p. 316⟩the half against the only one Altar commanded by God See Cavarruvias in Regnum paccatum part 2. sect. 4. Setus in 4. distin. 5. 4. 1. art. 10. Molina de Justitia disp. 106, and Bann•s 11. g. 10. art. 11. saith, that Paul the third defined well, that the Western Indians being capable of life eternal, were true Lords of their possessions, and could not be justly deprived thereof.
For course to be taken with Pagans (to speake 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 Warres to the faith. Because the just cause of Warre must either be an open breach of Nations against the Law of nature; for it must be a finne, of which a multitude may easily be, or are convinced of; as is cleare in the Alekites, and all the Nations who invaded Israel,