A free disputation against pretended liberty of conscience tending to resolve doubts moved

5. What if Gods dearest Saints believe and publish an heresy, and the doctrine of Familism, then they are to be pardoned, because they are dear Saints. But let Libertines answer the Query, why should Indulgence and Toleration be yielded to a Saint that speaks lies in the name of the Lord, more then to a wicked man who also doth prophesy lies? if both may fall in the same heresy with the like pertinacy for a time, if we be not respectres of persons, they no less deserve both to be punished, then when both commit adultery and murder. 2. Why lying of God and speaking words that eat like a gangrene, and believing a lye deserveth rather an indulgence in a Saint, then murdering, whoring, oppressing. And why, but we may tolerate all the Saints, because they are Saints, as well as some sin no less, yea more dangerous, then these that are not to be tolerated, for to infect the flock with lying doctrine is more hurtful to the Church, then the example of adultery or murder in a Saint, if toleration of all ways, and liberty of professing or publishing whatever tenets or doctrines seem good to a man in his own eyes, though to the perverting of the faith ⟨p. 401⟩of many, be a means of finding out many precious truths, as Libertines say, then hath God commanded all men to speak all kind of lies, against God, his Son Christ, heaven, hell, the resurrection, the last judgement, the immortality of the soul, though most pernicious to souls; for God commandeth all means of finding out truth, for it cannot be said he commands all lawful means, for Libertines hold that to profess and publish what the most erroneous conscience dictates to be the truth of God, though it be black heresy, is to speak the truth as an Indweller in the Lords holy hill, Psal. 15. so saith Vaticanus and all the Libertines who make the conscience right or erroneous, the rule of the Christian mans walking, not the word of God, and in so doing the Lord must by the Libertines doctrine command men to speak lies in the Name of the Lord, and must command Heretics and Saints to pervert the souls and the faith of one another, and make one another children of perdition, and not spare the flock, but devour and hunt souls, and so shall the Lord command sin. 6.

5. What if Gods dearest Saints beleeve and publish an heresie, and the doctrine of Familisme, then they are to be pardoned, because they are dear Saints. But let Libertines answer the Query, why should Indulgence and Toleration be yeelded to a Saint that speaks lyes in the name of the Lord, more then to a wicked man who also doth prophesie lyes? if both may fall in the same heresie with the like pertinacy for a time, if we be not respecters of persons, they no lesse deserve both to be punished, then when both commit adultery and murther. 2. Why lying of God and speaking words that eat like a gangrene, and beleeving a lye deserveth rather an indulgence in a Saint, then murthering, whoring, oppressing. And why, but we may tolerate all the Saints, because they are Saints, as well as some sinne no lesse, yea more dangerous, then these that are not to be tolerated, for to infect the flocke with lying doctrine is more hurtfull to the Church, then the example of adultery or murther in a Saint, if toleration of all wayes, and liberty of professing or publishing whatever tenets or doctrines seem good to a man in his owne eyes, though to the perverting of the faith