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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.
Answ. 1. The man as an Anabaptist citeth, Matth. 5. 39. 40. Whosoever shall smite thee on the right che•k, turn to him the other. Volkelius an errand Socinian cries down Laws and Judges, and all wars under the New Testament, and maketh this a new Commandment not warranted in the Old Testament, as if the hating of our enemy, and revenge, were commanded in the old, and forbidden in the new. Nay (s•ith he) what heavenly ravished and blessed Spirit will tell me what these Scriptures mean, Mat. 39. 40. 41, 42. as if none were heavenly and blessed Spirits that knew the meaning of the Scriptures but Volkelius, Chellius, Socinus and other Socinians and Anabaptists. I answer, Socinus and Volkelius are these blessed Spirits that can show the meaning of these words and tender Lettuce for your lips. But see your Socinian dream, and theirs refuted by Poliander and Joan. Peltius, for ⟨p. 344⟩Christ in the New Testament does no where contradict Moses Law, nor refute Moses, but he refuteth the false glosses which Scribes and Pharisees put on Moses Law.
Answ. 1. The man as an Anabaptist citeth, Matth. 5. 39. 40. Whosoever shall smite thee on the right che•k, turn to him the other. Volkelius an arrand Socinian cryes down Lawes and Judges, and all warres under the New Testament, and maketh this a new Commandement not warranted in the Old Testament, as if the hating of our enemie, and revenge, were commanded in the old, and forbidden in the new. Nay (s•ith he) what heavenly ravished and blessed Spirit will tell me what these Scriptures mean, Mat. 39. 40. 41, 42. as if none were heavenly and blessed Spirits that knew the meaning of the Scriptures but Volkelius, Chellius, Socinus and other Socinians and Anabaptis•s. I answer, Socinus and Volkelius are these blessed Spirits that can shew the meaning of these words and tender Lettice for your lips. But see your Socinian dream, and theirs refuted by Poliander and Joan. Peltius, for ⟨p. 344⟩