A92140:761
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 the place Isai. 60. cries to him that runs and will read, that Kings shall minister something to the true Church, which they do in no sort to the false Church, and it is most evident to the judicious Reader, that the sucking of the breasts of Kings, v. 10. 16. and the kissing of the Son, Psal. 2. must be more then common protection to Subjects that are open enemies to Christ and wasters of Zion; yea it must be some protection to the Church as the Church, and to the Laws and Ordinances of God, in rewarding the well-doers, and conserving the Ordinances, and the correcting of wolves, Impostors, lying Prophets; for if we come to Master Williams his way, That the King owes protection from violence to the persons and estates of false Worshippers, to those that serve Devils, and because they are Subjects, then those Texts say no more then Be glad Indians, Popish Idolaters, Mahometans, for I will make Kings your ⟨p. 325⟩nurse-fathers, and Queens your nurse-mothers, and Kings•shall minister unto you, and you shall suck the hreasts of Kings, and Kings shall bring their glory and riches to you. Nor need we prove that the place Isai. 60. speaks of the true Church, read it and its proved, v. 1. Arise, shine, for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee, &c. Nor is the matter helped to say, It is a great favour, that the power of the Kings who lent their •orne to the Beast, is now lent to the Lamb and his followers for their comfort, for then what power bring the Kings to the New Jerusalem, but Royal power? and what Royal power to protect the true Church in their persons and estates as they do the false? is this the breasts of the milk of Kings, and their royal power as nurse-fathers? and that power which they bring into the New Jerusalem? when it is the same very power they brought into Babel, and the same horn they lent to the beast. 2. The Kings lent no royal and paternal power to the true Church but what they lent to Babel as yet, nor do they yield any royal power to hold up Christs throne and maintain his ordinances, or convey the sincere milk of the word, by their politic coactive power to the Church, if our Adversaries Doctrine be received.