A Free Disputation Against Pretended Liberty of Conscience #11 - Samuel Rutherford

This audio is chapter 18 from Rutherford's Free Disputation.

The place I Timothy 2:1-2, for coercive power over false prophets cleared.

1. The place I Timothy 2:1-3 explained.

2. We are to pray that magistrates as magistrates may not only permit but procure to us that we may live in godliness.

3. Revelation: The ten kings as kings punish the whore, and burn her flesh for her idolatry.

4. Extraordinary punishing of heretics, no case of the magistrate’s neglect, argueth that the magistrate ought to punish them.

Rutherford's Free Disputation, though scarce is still one of his most important works. Though Rutherford is affectionately remembered in our day for his Letters, or for laying the foundations of constitutional government (against the divine right of kings) in his unsurpassed Lex Rex, his Free Disputation should not be overlooked -- for it contains the same searing insights as Lex, Rex. In fact, this book should probably be known as Rutherford's "politically incorrect" companion volume to Lex, Rex. A sort of sequel aimed at driving pluralists and antinomians insane.

Written against "the Belgick Arminians, Socinians, and other Authors contending for lawlesse liberty, or licentious Tolerations of Sects and Heresies," Rutherford explains the undiluted Biblical solution to moral relativism, especially as it is expressed in ecclesiastical and civil pluralism! (corporate pluralism being a violation of the first commandment and an affront to the holy God of Scripture).

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