A92140:763
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.
Inter Pontificios Jacobus Simanca parisiensis Episcop▪ 1in Enchyridio violatae religionis ti. 1. p. 16. nu. 12. parabolam loqui de punitione impiorum, quando est periculum ne simul eradicetur triticum, zizania sunt omnes filii nequam, nullus igitur facinorosus puniendus, absurdum, non loquitur parabola de judicibus. Phillippus Gamachaeus in 12. q. 10. de infidel. q. 13. sinite crescere, si verum ac reale non imaginarium damnum immineat, debet tum Ecclesia, debent tum Christiani principes à coactione abstinere. Sic Suarez tom. de vir theo. dis. 18. see. 4. nu. 9. (ne forte eradicetis) sie August. l. 3. contra Parmen▪ cap. 2. ⟨p. 327⟩c. 233. Tannerus tom. 1. dis. 1. de fid. q. 9. du. 2. n. 30. (ne forte •radicetis) ratio haec est communis & adequata omnis justae permissionis malorum quando etiam Deus eb eandem causam mala permittit, Azorius inst. par. 1. l 8. c. 13. per zizania haeretici intelliguntur secundum Chrysostimum, Augustinum, Hieronimum, Enthymium, Theop•ylactum, sed respondet ex parabolis non semper sumi efficax argumentum,3 & generaliter per verba, accipi hic pravos mores & falsa dogmata. Nor is it altogether to be condemned that Gregorius 9. Innocen. 4. Paulus 3. Clemens 8. command the Talmudical and Cabalistical books containing Blasphemies against God to be burnt in the fire, August. Ep. 48. ad Vincen. retracteth ingeniously his opinion, That Heretics ought not to be punished, mea primitus sententia, erat, neminem ad unitatem fidei cogendum. Theodore Srackius in hist. Anabap. c. 8. in notis p. 108. to the compelling of men to religion against their will, that which some object out of Lactantius, that Lactantius doth argue against such as being destitute of the word of God and sound reason, would compel by the Sword only men▪ to receive true Religion.
Inter Pontificios Jacobus Simanca parisiensis Episcop