A92140:884
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.
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 neither hating, nor envying, nor grudging at the safety of his son, only upon this mere opinion that he expresseth an act of love to God, above that he beareth to his son, as Abraham did, then by this way he sinneth not, this son-slaughter is not murder, nor punishable, but a simple error.
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 neither hating, nor envying, nor grudging at the safety of his son, only upon this meer opinion that he expresseth an act of love to God, above that he beareth to his son, as Abraham did, then by this way he sinneth not, this son-slaughter is not murther, nor punishable, but a simple errour.
- 1For the Father to kill the son, upon a mere religious ground, is no murder, nor punishable by Libertines wayFor the Father to kill the son, upon a meer religious ground, is no murther, nor punishable by Libertines way