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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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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,
3. These same as they disturb the peace of the State, do also deserve to be punished by the sword; though I take not on me to determine curiously whether the Magistrate punisheth sins formally, under the reduplication, as they trouble the peace of the State, or as they dishonour God the highest Judge, it may be there is something of both in this reduplication.
3. These same as they disturbe the peace of the State, doe also deserve to be punished by the sword; though I take not on me to determine curiously whether the Magistrate punisheth sins formally, under the reduplication, as they trouble the peace of the State, or as they dishonour God the highest Judge, it may be there is something of both in this reduplication.
4. These same sins are rebuked by private Professors, as they are stumbling blocks to them, Hos. 2. 1. plead with your mother; neither is it against the nature of persuasion to be drawn to means of sound believing by mens Laws, as I observed before from Augustine, for fear of punishment may cause men to hear the word of truth which otherwise they would never have heard,1 Epis. ad Vincen. 48. Alii dicant, nesciebamus sit esse veritatem, nec eam discere volebamus, sed nos ad eam eognoscendam metus fecit intentos, quo timuimus ne fortè sine ullis rerum aeternarum lucris, damno rerum eternarum feriremur, gratias