A92140:850
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.
Yea confident I am (saith Mr. Goodwin) that the wisest and most learned of them, 1are not able clearly or demonstratively, to inform the Magistrate and Judge, what blasphemy, and what Idolatry it was, which was, by God, sentenced to death under the Law. But so Mr. Goodwin in accusing our darkness, and in freeing the Magistrate of a duty he ow• to God and the Church, layeth obscurity on the Scripture, as Papists do, though for another end: And I am as confident there was some soro••y, some wilful murder, some incest, some plea […] ⟨p. 370⟩and blood, stroke and stroke, some adultery sentenced by God to be punished by the sword, that Mr. Jo. Goodwin is not able clearly and demonstratively to inform the Magistrate of. And by this argument, murder, sorcery, incest, and adultery, ought not to be punished by the sword. Can Mr. Jo. Goodwin demonstratively inform us, what be the false Prophets, Matth. 7. the grievous wolves, Act. 20. the Heretic, Tit. 3. 10. that we are not to believe, but to avoid? and by this argument we must not beware of them, nor avoid them, since they are unknowable.
Yea confident I am (saith Mr. Goodwin) that the wisest and most learned of them, 1are not able clearly or demonstratively, to informe the Magistrate and Judge, what blasphamy, and what Idolatry it was, which was, by God, sentenced to death under the Law. But so Mr. Goodwin in accusing our darknesse, and in freeing the Magistrate of a duty he ow• to God and the Church, layeth obscurity on the Scripture, as Papists doe, though for another end: And I am as confident there was some soro••y, some wilfull murther, some incest, some plea 〈…〉 ⟨p. 370⟩