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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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4. Is then cursed Toleration a way to spare the blood of the Saints, and not resisting the blessed Spirit in them, then we cannot punish heretics and men of corrupt minds, but we are in hazard to resist the Saints, and kill the Spirit in them; then when the Holy Ghost forbids us to believe false Christs, Matth. 24. which is a resisting of their spirit, we know not, but he bids us believe the word of truth in Gods dearest Saints, since for any knowledge we can have,1 not to believe these false Christs, it may be they are Gods dearest Saints, whose words we refuse to believe, then in one and the same Commandment of Christ, which is believe them not, he bids us believe their word, and resist not the Spirit of truth in Gods dearest Saints, and when Tit. 3. 18. he forbids us to keep company with an heretic, but avoid him, and 2 Joh. 10. receive not an impostor into your house, he bids us run the hazard of avoiding a Saint, and of refusing to lodge in your house Gods dear child.
4. Is then cursed Toleration a way to spare the bloud of the Saints, and not resisting the blessed Spirit in them, then we cannot punish hereticks and men of corrupt mindes, but we are in hazard to resist the Saints, and kill the Spirit in them; then when the Holy Ghost forbids us to beleeve false Christs, Matth. 24. which is a resisting of their spirit, we know not, but he bids us beleeve the word of truth in Gods dearest Saints, since for any knowledge we can have,1 not to beleeve these false Christs, it may be they are Gods dearest Saints, whose words we refuse to beleeve, then in one and the same Commandement of Christ, which is beleeve them not, he bids us beleeve their word, and resist not the Spirit of truth in Gods dearest Saints, and when Tit. 3. 18. he forbids us to keep company with an heretick, but avoid him, and 2 Joh. 10. receive not an impostour into your house, he bids us run the hazard of avoyding a Saint, and of refusing to lodge in your house Gods deare childe.