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Against Pretended Liberty of Conscience

Published: 1649
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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, and are to be sold at his shop, at the signe of the Green Dragon in St. Pauls Church-yard MDCIL. [1649]

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To the readerTO THE Godly and unpartiall Reader.
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Chapter 1CHAP. I. Of Conſcience and its nature.
Chapter 2CHAP. II. Conſcience under Synods, and how; and, that the Conſcience cannot have abſolute libertie in…
Chapter 3CHAP. III. The Church may complain of Hereticks.

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Chapter 6CHAP. VI. Errours in Non-Fundamentals obſtinately holden are puniſhable.
Chapter 7CHAP. VII. What opinions …
Chapter 8CHAP. VIII. Whether hereſie be a ſin, or a meer error and innocency: whether a… hereticke be an evill doer?
Chapter 9CHAP. IX. Of Liberty of propheſying of erroneous inditement of Conſcience that it is not our Rule.
Chapter 10CHAP. X. Of indulgence in fundamentall, or non-fundamentall errors.
Chapter 11CHAP. XI. Of the obliging power of Conſcience.
Chapter 12CHAP. XII. Arguments againſt pretended toleration.
Argument 1
Argument 2Argument II.
Argument 3Argument III.
Argument 4Argument IV.
Argument 5Argument V.
Argument 6Argument VI.
Chapter 13CHAP. XIII. Magiſtracy and perpetuall Lawes in the old Teſtament warrant the civill coercing of falſe…
Argument 7Argument VII.
Argument 8Argument VIII.
Argument 9Argument IX.
Chapter 14CHAP. XIV. Cavils againſt coercive judiciall Laws, for puniſhing falſe prophets in the Old Teſtament removed.
Chapter 15CHAP. XV. Chriſts not rebuking tolleration and the …aw, Deut. 13. vindicated.
Chapter 16CHAP. XVI. Propheſies in the Old Teſtament, eſpecially Zach. 13. 1, 2, 3, 4. 5, 6. for puniſhing falſe…
Chapter 17CHAP. XVII. Places in the New Teſtament, eſpecially Rom. 13. for puniſhing of falſe teachers vindicated.
Argument 10Argument XI.
Chapter 18CHAP. XVIII. The place, 1 Tim. 2. 1. 2. for coercive power over falſe Prophets, cleared.
Argument 11Argument XII.
Argument 12Argument XIII.
Argument 13Argument XIV.
Chapter 19CHAP. XIX. Exemption of falſe Prophets from coer…ive power, is not Chriſtian liberty.
Argument 14Argument XV.
Argument 15Argument XVI.
Chapter 20CHAP. XX. The parable of the Wheat and the Tares, diſcuſſed and cleared.
Chapter 21CHAP. XXI. Of the Samaritans, and of no compelling of Heathens. How the Covenant bindeth us.
Chapter 22CHAP. XXII. The pretended Liberty of Conſcience is againſt the Nationall League and Covenant, and the…
Chapter 23CHAP. XXIII. The place Acts 5. v. 34. to wit, the counſell of Gamaliel, diſcuſſed, and found nothing for…
Chapter 24CHAP. XXIV. Whether puniſhing of ſeducing Teachers, be inconſiſtent with the meekneſſe of Christ, place…
Chapter 25CHAP. XXV. Whether the Rulers by their Office, in order to peace, are to ſtand to the Lawes of Moſes, for…
Chapter 26CHAP. XXVI. Whether puniſhing of Seducing Teachers be perſecution for Conſcience.
Chapter 27CHAP. XXVII. Whether our darkneſſe and incapacity to beleeve and profeſſe, together with the darkneſſe and…
Chapter 28CHAP. XXVIII. Divers other Arguments for pretended Toleration, anſwered.
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