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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.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
Nor is it true, which Vaticanus replieth to Calvin, thefts, rapines, and adulteri•e are punished by the Magistrate, not to make up the Kingdom of Christ, 1and to justify men and make them godly as we say, and Calvin saith, the Magistrate punisheth Heretics. For where doth Augustine say that the Magistrate punisheth Seducers to convert them to God, as if the intrinsical end of the Magistrate were to conquer a spiritual Kingdom to Christ? Calvin saith the just contrary in that same place, verum quidem esse fateor utque vi armatâ erectum ab initi suisse regnum Christi, neque armorum praesidio stare, Evangelii enim pradicatione regnare Christum oportet. Itaque Dominus quo illustrior esset vocis sua efficacia, nudes & inormes misit Apostolos, nec modo destitui veluit terrenâ potantiâ, sed totum faere mundum habere infestum, ut calestem esse Evangelii victoriam omnibus constaret.
Nor is it true, which Vaticanus replyeth to Calvin, thefts, rapines, and adulteri•e are punished by the Magistrate, not to make up the Kingdome of Christ, 1and to justifie men and make them godly as we say, and Calvin saith, the Magistrate punisheth Hereticks. For where doth Augustine say that the Magistrate punisheth Seducers to convert them to God, as if the intrinsecall end of the Magistrate were to conquer a spirituall Kingdom to Christ? Calvin saith the just contrary in that same place, verum quidem esse fateor utque vi armatâ erectum ab initi suisse regnum Christi, neque armorum praesidio stare, Evangelii enim pradicatione regnare Christum oportet. Itaque Dominus quo illustrior esset vocis sua efficacia, nudes & inormes misit Apostolos, nec modo destitui veluit terrenâ potantiâ, sed totum faere mundum habere infestum, ut calestem esse Evangelii victoriam omnibus constaret.
- 1The intrinsical end of the Magistrate or of his office is not the conversion of Souls.The intrinsecal end of the Magistrate or of his office is not the conversion of Souls.