A92140:826
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
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.
1. Because the Magistrate, as the Magistrate should, and ought, as the Minister of God, give commandments to the outward man, under pain of corporal punishment, not to the soul, or to the inward man.
1. Because the Magistrate, as the Magistrate should, and ought, as the Minister of God, give commandements to the outward man, under paine of corporall punishment, not to the soule, or to the inward man.
2. Because that external obedience, not to kill, not to ⟨p. 357⟩steal, not to speak lies, is good, lawful external obedience, to man, and profitable in the State, for the end that God hath appointed it, which is the peaceable conversing one with another, that same abstinence from killing in an unrenewed man, who abstaineth not from killing for fear of God, and love to his brethren, is a sinful abstinence, and carnal repentance,1 by accident, and in relation to the Law of God; but the Magistrate neither commandeth abstinence from killing, from an inward spiritual principle, nor forbiddeth he the contrary: he commandeth not abstinence from false doctrine out of the love that the messenger owes to him who purchased the flock with his blood; nor forbiddeth he such abstinence, but only he commandeth abstinence from speaking lies to the people of God.
2. Because that externall obedience, not to kill, not to ⟨p. 357⟩steale, not to speake lies, is good, lawfull externall obedience, to man, and profitable in the State, for the end that God hath appointed it, which is the peaceable conversing one with another, that same abstinence from killing in an unrenewed man, who abstaineth not from killing for fear of God, and love to his brethren, is a sinfull abstinence, and carnall repentance,1