A92140:792
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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yet since it is better, if the will of God be so that we suffer for welldoing then for evil doing, 1 Pet. 3 17 however these Ishmaelites are powerful, prosperous, prevail against us, and have the world at will for the present, yet let us comfort our-selves that God hath chosen the despised and poor, rich in faith, &c. We close this Chapter with their doom and ours, 1nevertheless what saith the Scripture, C•st out the bondwoman, for the son of the bon•woman shall not be heir with the son of the free-woman, so then, we are not children of the bondwoman, 2but of the free, Gal. 4. 30, 31. So of that sort is the heedless Querist to the Assembly of Divines.
yet since it is better, if the will of God be so that we suffer for w•ldoing then for evill doing, 1 Pet. 3 17 howev•r these Ishmalites are powerful, prosperous, prevaile against us, and have the world at will for the present, yet let us comfort our-selves that God hath chosen the dispised and poore, rich in faith, &c. We close this Chapter with their doom and ours, 1neverthel•sse what saith the Scripture, C•st out the bondwoman, for the son of the bon•woman shall not be heire with the son of the free-woman, so then, we are not children of the bondwoman, 2but of the free, Gal. 4. 30, 31. So of that sort is the heedlesse Quaerist to the Assembly of Divines.