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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
Chapter 26: Whether punishing of Seducing Teachers be persecution for Conscience.
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will make them think the killing of the Lords Apostles is good service to God, and all the sarcastic mockings and jeerings of M. Williams Goodwin, the Authors I cite, and of other Libertines against Presbyterians, the followers of Calvin, the opposers of wild and Atheistical liberty of conscience (since they are not in fallible in maintaining toleration of all ways, Turkism, Judaism, Familism, Socinianism, &c.) must be persecution of all in the contrary opinion for conscience, and so while they write against persecution, they persecute all contrary arguing and refuting of such, as we conceive do err: and all rebuking of them, all syllogistical collections and inferences, of the absurdities and blasphemies of their doctrine, must be smiting with the tongue and persecution. For that spoken against Jeremiah, The Law shall not perish from the Priest, nor the word of the Lord from the Prophet; having so much colour of Scripture, as that also, he saved others; Ergo, if he •e the Saviour, he must save himself, being of the dye and hew of truth, so near of blood to it in outward face, and to the consciences of many; were notwithstanding grievous persecuting of Jeremiah and Jesus Christ, then must M. Williams say true, we must not by prayer or prophesy seek to pluck up the tares till harvest. So all writing, preaching, and refuting of gainsayers, of that which we conceive to be truth, except we be infallible, and prophetically ascertained we are right, and these we refute, wrong, must be persecution and smiting with the tongue.
will make them think the killing of the Lords Apostles is good service to God, and all the sarcasticke mockings and jearings of M. Williams Goodwin, the Authors I cite, and of other Libertines against Presbyterians, the followers of Calvin, the opposers of wilde and Atheisticall liberty of conscience (since they are not in fallible in maintaining toleration of all wayes, Turcisme, Judaisme, Familisme, Socinianisme, &c.) must be persecution of all in the contrary opinion for conscience, and so while they write against persecution, they persecute all contrary arguing and refuting of such, as we conceive doe erre: and all rebuking of them, all syllogisticall collections and inferences, of the absurdities and blasphemies of their doctrine, must be smiting with the tongue and persecution. For that spoken against Jeremiah, The Law shall not perish from the Priest, nor the word of the Lord from the Prophet; having so much colour of Scripture, as that also, he saved others; Ergo, if he •e the Saviour, he must save himselfe, being of the dye and hew of truth, so near of bloud to it in outward face, and to the consciences of many; were notwithstanding grievous persecuting of Jeremiah and Jesus Christ, then must M. Williams say true, we must not by prayer or prophesie seeke to pluck up the tares till harvest. So all writing, preaching, and refuting of gainsayers, of that which we conceive to be truth, except we be infallible, and prophetically ascertaied we are right, and these we refute, wrong, must be persecution and smiting with the tongue.