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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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3. Nor do Libertines charge us more with persecution, then Anabaptists did Bullinger and our Reformers, and the Donatists did Augustine, 1and the Catholics upon whom Augustine retorted the challenge, for the true Church (saith he) casts out Hagar the handmaid, is this persecution? It is to be observed in this Argument. 1. That none objected ⟨p. 338⟩this but Sectaries▪ and such as were conscious to themselves of foul tenets,2 as Anabaptists in Germany, Donatists in Africa, Papists in Queen Elizabeths time; Calvin, Beza, Protestants never objected this, against the Papists, or Spanish Inquisitors, the old Non-conformists never pleaded against the most tyrannical Prelates for liberty of conscience, find this in all their books. So Cartwright, yea Amesius though by assed with Independency, speaketh against lawless liberty.
3. Nor doe Libertines charge us more with persecution, then Anabaptists did Bullinger and our Reformers, and the Donatists did Augustine, 1and the Catholicks upon whom Augustine retorted the challenge, for the true Church (saith he) casts out Agar the handmaid, is this persecution? It is to be observed in this Argument. 1. That none objected ⟨p. 338⟩this but Sectaries▪ and such as were conscious to themselves of foule tenets,2 as Anabaptists in Germany, Donatists in Africa, Papists in Q•een Elizabeths time; Calvin, Beza, Protestants never objected this, against the Papists, or Spanish Inquisitors, the old Non-conformists never pleaded against the most tyrannicall Prelates for liberty of conscience, finde this in all their books. So Cartwright, yea Amesius though by assed with Independency, speaketh against lawlesse liberty.