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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. Mr. Williams ought for no Religion venture his life to burning quick, for he cannot dye or cast away his life but ⟨p. 340⟩upon a conjecture,1 it may be there is a God, and it may be there is no God; for how dare he break the sixth Command and hazard his life, for a truth that may be a lye? So neither should any persecute, but in faith, that he is infallibly sure the man is a real heretic, neither should he be persecuted, for he is not infallible in the knowledge that he suffereth for, and so cannot suffer in faith, see for more of this, and the foregoing doctrine.2 Cainbartus contra Lypsium; Lincaeus, de libertate Christiana, Althusius in politicis, and Celsus gives us good stuff, It was commanded Kings in the Old Testament to kill their enemies, but in the New Testament we are to love our enemies, and do good to them that hate us; 2 For edification, not for killing and destruction is Church Discipline ordained.
3. Mr. Williams ought for no Religion venture his life to burning quicke, for he cannot dye or cast away his life but ⟨p. 340⟩upon a conjecture,1 it may be there is a God, and it may be there is no God; for how dare he breake the sixt Command and hazard his life, for a truth that may be a lye? So neither should any persecute, but in faith, that he is infallibly sure the man is a reall hereticke, neither should he be persecuted, for he is not infallible in the knowledge that he suffereth for, and so cannot suffer in faith, see for more of this, and the foregoing doctrine.2 Cainbartus contra Lypsium; Lincaeus, de libertate Christiana, Althusius in politicis, and Celsus gives us good stuffe, It was commanded Kings in the Old Testament to kill their enemies, but in the New Testament we are to love our enemies, and doe good to them that hate us; 2 For edification, not for killing and destruction is Church Discipline ordained.