A92140:935
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. To inflict bodily punishment for Sorcery, makes not the Magistrate a Church-officer, as he fondly fancieth, all sins against God, who is a Spirit, or spiritual: and by this reason the Church of Thyatira, should not censure the fornication of Jezebel and her followers; nor the Corinthians the Incestuous man with excommunication, which is a corporal offence to speak so, contrary to 1 Cor. 5. whereas all public sins as sins against God, are punished by him, with bodily and spiritual plagues,1 as it pleaseth him.
Answ. To inflict bodily punishment for Sorcery, makes not the Magistrate a Church-officer, as he fondly phansieth, all sinnes against God, who is a Spirit, or spirituall: and by this reason the Church of Thyatira, should not censure the fornication of Jezabel and her followers; nor the Corinthians the Incestuous man with excommunication, which is a corporall offence to speake so, contrary to 1 Cor. 5. whereas all publicke sinnes as sinnes against God, are punished by him, with bodily and spirituall plagues,1 as it pleaseth him.
- 1In four sundry considerations sins are censured.
2. These same sins as they are scandals, that offend the Church, are punished with Church-censures,
2. These same sinnes as they are scandalls, that offend the Church, are punished with Church-censures,