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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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2. But how shall Mr. Baptist prove Christ foretelling the Apostles should be persecuted for the preaching of the truth of God and the Gospel,1 that these Apostles, and the Anabaptists that now are, must look in like manner to be persecuted for the Gospel; that is, for Familism, Socinianism, all the new Blasphemies now on foot in England; are all these blasphemies the Gospel? and whosoever suffer for monstrous heresies, must they suffer as the Apostles did? and must they lay claim to all the comforts that our Saviour hath bequeathed in his Testament, to his Disciples who were to suffer for Christs sake, and for righteousness, then surely an erroneous and a blaspheming conscience must be righteousness; and to suffer for blasphemy and Satan, must be to suffer for righteousness and for Christs sake,2 for these Libertines say the Assembly of Divines teach Blasphemies, Popery, murdering of Saints for conscience. So Baptist, so Necessity of Toleration, so Ancient Bounds.3
2. But how shall Mr. Baptist prove Christ foretelling the Apostles should be persecuted for the preaching of the truth of God and the Gospel,1 that these Apostles, and the Anabaptists that now are, must looke in like manner to be persecuted for the Gospel; that is, for Familisme, Socinianisme, all the new Blasphemies now on foot in England; are all these blasphemies the Gospel? and whosoever suffer for monstrous heresies, must they suffer as the Apostles did? and must they lay claim to all the comforts that our Saviour hath bequeathed in his Testament, to his Disciples who were to suffer for Christs sake, and for righteousnesse, then surely an erronious and a blaspheming conscience must be righteousnesse; and to suffer for blasphemy and Satan, must be to suffer for righteousnesse and for Christs sake,2 for these Libertines say the Assembly of Divines teach Blasphemies, Popery, murthering of Saints for conscience. So Baptist, so Necessity of Toleration, so Ancient Bounds.3