A92140:916
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.
For 1 Whatever involves a contradiction in the Old Testament, involves a contradiction in the New, and contra, then Gods Laws in Deut. 13. Levit. 24. are contradictions to reason.
For 1 Whatever involves a contradiction in the Old Testament, involves a contradiction in the New, and contra, then Gods Lawes in Deut. 13. Levit. 24. are contradictions to reason.
2 Then God forced the understanding and will in their elicit acts in the Old Testament as if a Wolfe had given Laws, to the conscience of the false Prophet, yea, so a dog was as capable of a law as the false Prophet, being forced by stoning, both under the Old Testament, and under the New, (stones were as hard weapons as steel swords) to the Jews, as to us.
2 Then God forced the understanding and will in their elicit acts in the Old Testament as if a Wolfe had given Lawes, to the conscience of the false Prophet, yea, so a dog was as capable of a law as the false Prophet, being forced by stoning, both under the Old Testament, and under the New, (stons were as hard weapons as steel swords) to the Jewes, as to us.
3 Stones were as unable to cut off the darkness of the mind, and unbelief, and hardness of heart, of Jews, as a steel sword can prevail with our hearts.
3 Stones were as unable to cut off the darknesse of the mind, and unbeleefe, and hardnesse of heart, of Iewes, as a steele sword can prevaile with our hearts.