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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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11. Object. What if the Magistrate in punishing heresy, differ from the Church, and strike with the sword, for that which the Church thinks no heresy? what shall the Church do then? and what if the Church judge that to be heresy, and exhort the Magistrate to punish that as heresy,1 which the Magistrate in his conscience, judgeth to be no heresy? What shall then the Magistrate do?
11. Object. What if the Magistrate in punishing heresie, differ from the Church, and strike with the sword, for that which the Church thinkes no heresie? what shall the Church doe then? and what if the Church judge that to be heresie, and exhort the Magistrate to punish that as heresie,1 which the Magistrate in his conscience, judgeth to be no heresie? What shall then the Magistrate doe?
- 1The Magistrate is subject to the just power of the Church and the Church to the just power of the Magistrate; neither of them to abused power, and the word of God in point of conscience supreme to regulate both
Answ. Though there be reciprocation of subordinations, that the Magistrate in an Ecclesiastic way be subject to the Church power, yet not to an abused Church power, and the Church in a Civill way be subject to the Magistrates power, yet not to the Magistrates power tyrannically used, but to the power that is from God, and as used for God, and common justice in the one Court, and the word of God in the other, is supreme Empire & judge that either must follow.
Answ. Though there be reciprocation of subordinations, that the Magistrate in an Ecclesiasticke way be subject to the Church power, yet not to an abused Church power, and the Church in a Civill way be subject to the Magistrates power, yet not to the Magistrates power tyrannically used, but to the power that is from God, and as used for God, and common justice in the one Court, and the word of God in the other, is supreme Empire & judge that either must follow.