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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. Christ refuteth Socinians and Anabaptists, Matth. 5. 17. Think not I am come to destroy the Law, &c. 18. For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth pass one jot, or one title shall in no wise pass from the Law, till all he fulfilled. But if Christ oppose his new Precepts to the Law of Moses as Velkelius saith, he must utterly destroy the Law of Moses, and substitute a ⟨p. 345⟩more perfect Law in the place thereof. But Libertines, as Joh. Baptist here, would have heresy forbidden in the Old Testament, and punishing of false prophesying commanded there. But heresy must be Innocency, and Righteousness in the New Testament, and to be punished for false teaching in the old was to suffer for ill-doing; but now in the New (saith Baptist) to be punished for false prophesying is to suffer for well-doing, and he citeth 1 Pet. 3. 17. as if it were the will of God, that Sectaries suffer for well-doing: that is, for Familism, Socinianism, Antinomianism, Popery, Idolatry, butchering of children to God, as some Anabaptist Parents have done, and for preaching Doctrine that eateth as a Gangrene, 2 Tim. 2 for blaspheming and denying the Resurrection of the dead, as Hymeneus did; for he that suffereth for all these, out of mere conscience, suffereth for welldoing, as Peter saith, if we believe Joh. Baptist.
3. Christ refuteth Socinians and Anabaptists, Matth. 5. 17. Think not I am come to destroy the Law, &c. 18. For verily I say unto you, till heaven and earth passe one jot, or one title shall in no wise passe from the Law, till all he fulfilled. But if Christ oppose his new Precepts to the Law of Moses as Velkelius saith, he must utterly destroy the Law of Moses, and substitute a ⟨p. 345⟩more perfect Law in the place thereof. But Libertines, as Joh. Baptist here, would have heresie forbidden in the Old Testament, and punishing of false prophesying commanded there. But heresie must be Innocency, and Righteousnesse in the New Testament, and to be punished for false teaching in the old was to suffer for ill-doing; but now in the New (saith Baptist) to be punished for false prophesying is to suffer for well-doing, and he citeth