A92140:768
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.
Q. But is not the Christian Ruler then as a Ruler, to judge whether Arrius ought to be banished, and imprisoned, who denieth the Son of God to be consubstantial with the Father?1 and so all Rulers are to judge of Heresies and Gospel▪ Truths even Indian and Puga• Magistrates, who are essentially Magistrates, as well as Christian Rulers, for quod convenit [Greek or Hebrew].
Q. But is not the Christian Ruler then as a Ruler, to judge whether Arrius ought to be banished, and imprisoned, who denieth the Son of God to be consubstantiall with the Father?1 and so all Rulers are to judge of Heresies and Gospell▪ Truths even Indian and Puga• Magistrates, who are essentially Magistrates, as well as Christian Rulers, for quod convenit 〈non-Latin alphabet〉.
- 1How the Magistrate is to judge of Heresy.How the Magistrate is to judge of Heresie.
Ans. There is a difference betwixt a Ruler, and such a Ruler, a Christian Ruler, or a Heathen Ruler, a Ruler a• a Ruler, should judge of all civill businesses, and of truths and falsehood in Religion, for all Nations have some God, and some Religion; but a Ruler as a Christian Ruler only, not as a Ruler (as the notion of: […] a Ruler doth […] and the Christian Ruler) ought […] judge what is Gospel truth, or Gospel untruth, for then all […] Pagan, or what not should judge the Gospel truth though they be not obliged to believe in Christ, or to know the Gospel, which they never heard,