A92140:902
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.
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Answ. It follows no way, two things hinder any to execute these Laws.1 1. They are not so under us as we have a Magistratical power over them, as Magistrates have the sword over ill-doers, that are subjected by divine providence to the power. 2. They are not convicted of Blasphemy, nor instructed in the doctrine of the Gospel, as they are convicted by the Law of nature, that murder, and adultery deserve punishment.
Answ. It followes no way, two things hinder any to execute these Laws.1 1. They are not so under us as we have a Magistratical power over them, as Magistrates have the sword over ill-doers, that are subjected by divine providence to the power. 2. They are not convicted of Blasphemie, nor instructed in the doctrine of the Gospel, as they are convicted by the Law of nature, that murther, and adulterie deserve punishment.
- 1From punishing of false Teachers it followeth not that the Jews and all the Idolatrous Heathen should be killed.From punishing of false Teachers it followeth not that the Jewes and all the Idolatrous Heathen should be killed.