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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.
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Answ. Where are the ten Commandments set down in the New Testament in express words of Scripture order? or where speaketh Christ or his Apostles of prison, sword, gallows, faggot to witches, murderers, parricides, yea or of so much as rebuking or excommunicating such by their specified sins in particular, more than of blasphemers? yet doth he Rom. 13. appoint prison and sword for all ill doers, and the same Socinians and Anabaptists object against all Magistracy.
Answ. Where are the ten Commandements set down in the New Testament in expresse words of Scripture order? or where speaketh Christ or his Apostles of prison, sword, gallows, faggot to witches, murtherers, parricides, yea or of so much as rebuking or excommunicating such by their specified sins in particular, more than of blasphemers? yet doth he Rom. 13. appoint prison and sword for all ill doers, and the same Socinians and Anabaptists object against all Magistracie.
Obj. 7. The State and National Church of the Jews sware a Covenant,1 2 Chron. 15. that whosoever would not seek the Lord God of Israel should be put to death whether small or great, ⟨p. 387⟩whether man or woman. But may whole Nations or Kingdoms now, (according to any title expressed by Jesus Christ to that purpose (follow that pattern of Israel; and put to death all both men and women, great, and small, that according to the rules of the Gospel are not born again, penitent, humble, heavenly, patient, &c. What 1. Hypocrisy brings this? 2 What a profanation of the holy name of God bringeth this?2 3. What massacring of people by civill wars?