A92140:891
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 28: Divers other Arguments for pretended Toleration, answered.
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.
Doctor Taylor objects from the Arminians, he that persecutes a disagreeing person,1 doth arm all the world to persecu•• himself, if he say he is no Heretic, he is as confidently believed to be an Heretic, as he believes his adversary to be an Heretic▪ if it be said, every side must take their venture, this is to make the Christian world a shambles.
DOctor Taylor objects from the Arminians, he that persecutes a disagreeing person,1 doth arm all the world to persecu•• himself, if he say he is no Heretick, he is as confidently beleeved to be an Heretick, as he beleeves his adversarie to be an Heretick▪ if it be said, every side must take their venture, this is to make the Christian world a shambles.
- 1Sect. 13. n. 5.
Ans. 1. Because sound and orthodox Magistrates punish Heretics, they do no more arm Heretics against them to punish them, then they arm murderers to punish them, because no law of Conscience teacheth, that a seducer is obliged to publish to others his erroneous opinion, touching man sacrificing, the unlawfulness of Magistracy under the New Testament, Liberty of Conscience, Familism, and the […] ▪ for then the Law of nature must teach, men are obliged in conscience to sin, and pervert others.
Ans. 1. Because sound and orthodoxe Magistrates punish Hereticks, they doe no more arm Hereticks against them to punish them, then they arme murtherers to punish them, because no law of Conscience teacheth, that a seducer is obliged to publish to others his erroneous opinion, touching mansacrificing, the unlawfulness of Magistracie under the New Testament, Libertie of Conscience, Familisme, and the for then the Law of nature must teach, men are obliged in conscience to sin, and pervert others.