A92140:931
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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But the Papist saith, nay, but they fight not against the light of nature, for to adore Christ under the accidents of bread is my conscience; and indeed Doctor Taylor saith, you must believe it is his conscience, and realities and pretences are […] here, though he contradict himself and in another place say […] some blasphemies are punishable by the Magistrate: But Libertines are […] of Babel, and almost as many Heads, so many sundry opinions. Mr. Williams goes one way, Mr. Goodwin another, the Bounder a third way. John Baptist a fourth way, Doctor Taylor a fifth way. The Belgic Arminians a sixth way. None of them please Mr. Jeremiah Burroughs, nor Mr. Philip Nigh, yea and Mr. Sadr. Simpson is as gross as any of them, so Socinians have a way of their own, Anabaptists another way, Seekers and Familists, as Saltmarsh a far different way. Mr. ⟨p. 396⟩Oliver Cromwell calls all Religions things of the mind, Vaticanus tells us,1 si Deum negent, si blasphemant, si palam de sanct à Christianorum doctrinâ maledicunt, (quo crimine reus est ipse Castalio) si sanctam piorum vitam detestantur, eos ego relinquo Magistratibus puniendos, 2non propter religionem, quam nullam habent, se• propter irreligionem.
But the Papist saith, nay, but they fight not against the light of nature, for to adore Christ under the accidents of bread is my conscience; and indeed Doctor Taylor saith, you must beleeve it is his conscience, and reallities and pretences are 〈…〉 here, though he contradict himself and in another place say 〈…〉 some blasphemies are punishable by the Magistrate: But Libertines are 〈…〉 of Babel, and almost as many Heads, so many sundry opinions. Mr. Willams goes one way, Mr. Goodwin another, the Bounder a third way. John Baptist a fourth way, Doctor Taylor a fift way. The Belgick Arminians a sixt way. None of them please Mr. Jeresiah Burroughes, nor Mr. Philip Nye, yea and Mr. Sadr. Simpson is as grosse as any of them, so Socinians have a way of their own, Anabaptists another way, Seekers and Familists, as Saltmarsh a far different way. Mr.