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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.
Answ. Ezra 6. 3. Cyrus […] decree, Let the house of the Lord be built, &c. Ezra 7. 23. Artaxerxes in his decree faith, Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, 1let it be diligently done for the God of heaven, &c. he restrained men from Idolatry, and all disobedience to the Law of God. •. […] whosoever will not do the Law of thy God […] Law of the King, Let judgement be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or unto banishment, or unto confiscation of […], or to imprisonment: Ergo, This heathen King by the •ight of nature, by a civill Law established the Law of God against Idolaters and ⟨p. 386⟩false Prophets, which is all we crave of Christian Magistrates, and for this cause said Ezra, Blessed •e the Lord God of our Fathers, who hath put such a thing in the heart of the King to beautify the house of the Lord which is at Jerusalem. He interposeth the Kings law to the law of God, though the Law of God borrow no obligatory power or dignity from the King, and the Lord need not the sword of flesh, yet that it may get external obedience before men, and with the external man, it is the duty of Artaxerxes and of all kings, to add their law of death, banishment or confiscation, &c. to the Law of God, that such as refuse to do the Law of God, and seduce the people of God with lies and false doctrine may be punished, it was the defect of duty in these Kings that they compelled not the people to return.
Answ. Ezra 6. 3. Cyrus 〈…〉 decree, Let the house of the Lord be built, &c. Ezra 7. 23. Artaxerxes in his decree faith, Whatsoever is commanded by the God of heaven, 1let it be diligently done for the God of heaven, &c. he restrained men from Idolatry, and all disobedience to the Law of God. . whosoever will not doe the Law of thy God Law of the King, Let judgement be executed speedily upon him, whether it be unto death, or unto banishment, or unto confiscation of , or to imprisonment: Ergo, This heathen King by the ight of nature, by a civill Law established the Law of God against Idolaters and