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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.
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.
If the Magistrate as a Magistrate have a power from Christ to punish such as he is persuaded in his conscience are erroneous and heretical,1 or because he differs in Religion from the Magistrate, then Queen Mary and her Parliament did well in burning the Martyrs for differing from her established Religion.
If the Magistrate as a Magistrate have a power from Christ to punish such as he is perswaded in his conscience are erroneous and hereticall,1 or because he differs in Religion from the Magistrate, then Queen Mary and her Parliament did well in burning the Martyrs for differing from her established Religion.
- 1Smalcius praefat. re•at, frant. Soci•. praelect. Theol. c. 17. Smalcius refut. lib. de satisfact. Christi c. 1 & lib 1, de offic. Christi 7. Jesus Christus est primus ac solus praeco hujus doctrinae ac multo perfectio is quam ea quae ante Christum, in popul• D•i fuit. P•liander in concertat. Socinian. disp. 27. thes. 35, 36, 37. Peltiush•rmon. Socin. & remonst. art. 292. art. 21. Volke•ius in verbis Christi illis testimoni•s (inquit) Exod. •1. 24. Lev. 24. 20. Deut 19. 21 •am legis mon•em fuisse comprobatur, ut ultio ac vindicta fuisse permiss• sta•uatur, mod• per magistratum, non autem propti authoritate fieret. Cui quid em legi Christus sua verba opponens, omnem non modo privatam, sed etiam publicam vindictam abrogat, suisque praecipit ut omnes perpessiones quae alterius maxiae obversione significantur, omnemque bonorum jacturam, quae pallii dimissione innutur, omnem denique molestiam, quae coactione ad unum milliare designatur, ita ferant, ut similem denuo injuriam subeant, potius quam illatm, ive per se, five per magistratum ulciscantur.