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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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Answ. 1. There is no question but God hath wise and noble ends why he permits Heresies, but we no more can Orthodoxly say,1 That God determines Heresies, then that God determines that sin must be, for Heresies are sins; now we say not soundly, That God determines or decrees sins shall be sine adjecto, he determines to permit sin. 2. God determines Heresies must be, so he determines that murders, adulteries, oppressions must be: it then shall follow the Christian Magistrate by this Argument does tolerate murders, oppressions, as he tolerates heresies, but the conclusion is gross, because Heresies are the Churches affliction (and so are bloods and oppressions of the Saints) shall then Christian Magistrates tolerate all the bloods and oppressions that the Saints suffer?
Answ. 1. There is no question but God hath wise and noble ends why he permits Heresies, but we no more can Orthodoxly say,1 That God determines Heresies, then that God determines that sin must be, for Heresies are sins; now wee say not soundlie, That God determines or decrees sins shall be sine adjecto, he determines to permit sin. 2. God determines Heresies must be, so he determines that murthers, adulteries, oppressions must be: it then shall follow the Christian Magistrate by this Argument does tolerate murthers, oppressions, as he tolerates heresies, but the conclusion is grosse, because Heresies are the Churches affliction (and so are bloods and oppressions of the Saints) shall then Christian Magistrates tolerate all the bloods and oppressions that the Saints suffer?
- 1Libertines say, God hath de••red Heresies to be.Liber•ines say, God hath de••red Heresies to be.