THE ANTI-TOLERANCE AGAINST PRETENDED LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE HOMEPAGE.

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"It was justice, not cruelty, yea mercy to the Church of God, to take away the life of Servetus, who used such spirituall and diabolick cruelty to many thousand soules, whom he did pervert, and by his Booke, does yet lead into perdition."—Samuel Rutherfurd, A Free Disputation Against Pretended Liberty of Conscience. (1649).

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WORKS AGAINST TOLERANCE AND PRETENDED LIBERTY OF CONSCIENCE:

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• Henry Bullinger's Sermon on Of Judgment, and the Office of the Judge; that Christians are not Forbidden to Judge: Of Revengement and Punishment: Whether it be Lawful for a Magistrate to Kill the Guilty: Wherefore, When, How, and What the Magistrate Must Punish: Whether He May Punish Offenders in Religion or No.
• John Knox's Defense of the Execution of Servetus extracted from his Treatise on Predestination.
• George Gillespie's Wholesome Severity Reconciled with Christian Liberty.
• Samuel Rutherfurd's Preface to his Survey of Spirituall Antichrist.
• A Testimony to the Truth of Jesus Christ, and to Our Solemn League and Covenant; as also Against the Errours, Heresies and Blasphemies of these times, and the Toleration of them. Wherein is inserted A Catalogue of divers of the said Errours &c. All of them being collected out of their Authors own Books alleadged in the margin, and laid down in their own words; except one that was maintained in a dispute in Oxford, Decemb. 11. 1646. and six or seven which were asserted before a Committe of the Honourable House of Commons in the Star-Chamber, and reported to the House, Sept. 12. 1643.  Subscribed by the Ministers of Christ within the Province of London, Decemb. 14 &c. 1647.
• A Testimony of the Ministers of the Province of Salop, to the Truth of Jesus Christ, and to the Solemn League and Covenant, as Also Against the Errors, Heresies, and Blasphemies of these times, and the Toleration of them.  Sent up to the Ministers within the Province of London, Subscribers of the First Testimony.
• The Commissioners of the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland—A Solemn Testimony Against Toleration, and the Present Proceedings of the Sectaries and their Abettors, in England, in Reference to Religion and Government.
• Ministers of Perth and Fife—A Testimony to the Truth of Jesus Christ; or, to the Doctrine, Worship, Discipline, and Government of the Kirk of Scotland; and to the National Covenants, Against the Prevailing Errors, Heresies, Blasphemies, etc., etc.
• James Guthrie's Some Considerations Contributing Unto the Discovery of the Dangers that Threaten Religion, and the Work of Reformation in the Church of Scotland.
• John Howie's Preface to Faithful Witness Bearing Exemplified.
• James R. Willson's Essay on Tolerance.

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