A92140:883
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
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3. If matters of fact be punishable according to their proportion and malignancy, then speaking lies in the name of the Lord, and teaching and professing malignant doctrine contrary to the doctrine of godliness, that Christ thought it no robbery to be equal and consubstantial to God, that God is one in three persons, and to teach any thing contrary to what God hath said in his word, as that there were not eight persons in the Ark with Noah, must be punishable, the contrary whereof the Doctor saith here: for every breach of a Commandment is malignancy and punishable, when it hurteth humane society especially.
3. If matters of fact be punishable according to their proportion and malignancy, then speaking lyes in the name of the Lord, and teaching and professing malignant doctrine contrary to the doctrine of godlinesse, that Christ thought it no robbery to be equall and consubstantiall to God, that God is one in three persons, and to teach any thing contrary to what God hath said in his word, as that there were not eight persons in the Arke with Neah, must be punishable, the contrary whereof the Doctor saith here: for every breach of a Commandement is malignancy and punishable, when it hurteth humane society especially.
4. Can a man be the less heretical, and his society the less detestable then, that he thinks his heresy is sound doctrine? for thoughts cannot change the nature of actions.
4. Can a man be the lesse hereticall, and his society the lesse detestable then, that he thinks his heresie is sound doctrine? for thoughts cannot change the nature of actions.
5. To kill a man is indifferent of it self, it may be done in justice, it may be done in injustice, but if a man kill his son, and offer him to God,1