A92140:117
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
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.
Answ. Here is a mere fluctuation and Scepticism even in fundamentals and the faith of them, for all interpretation of Scripture is rejected, there is no distinction in fundamentals or no fundamentals, for in principles of faith, that Christ is God and man, and dyed for sinners, the Scripture is most plain, and what need then of our interpretation?1 then let Arians and Socinians believe him to be God man and to die for sinners in their sense, the Familists in a contrary sense, the Georgians in another contrary sense, the Papists in a third, the Protestants in a fourth, and so as many heads, as many faiths, every sect, and man must have some sense, else his faith is non-sense, and if he err from the sense of the Holy Ghost, the Scripture is no Scripture, if it be believed in a sense contrary to the Scripture to him who so believes; and so his faith is no faith, but a vain night-fancy, and seeing the word of God gives us but one faith, and one truth, and one Gospel, if interpretations be left free to every man, these Libertines gives us millions of faiths with millions of senses, and so no faith at all.
Answ. Here is a meere fluctuation and Septicism even in fundamentals and the faith of them, for all interpretation of Scripture is rejected, there is no destinction in fundamentals or no fundamentals, for in principles of faith, that Christ is God and man, and dyed for sinners, the Scripture is most plaine, and what need then of our interpretation?1 then let Arrians and Secinnians beleeve him to be God man and to die for sinners in their sense, the Familists in a contrary sense, the Georgians in another contrary sense, the Papists in a third, the Protestants in a fourth, and so as many heads, as many faiths, every sect, and man must have some sense, else his faith is non-sense, and if he erre from the sense of the Holy Ghost, the Scripture is no Scripture, if it be believed in a sense contrary to the Scripture to him who so believes; and so his faith is no faith, but a vaine night-phancie, and seeing the word of God gives us but one faith, and one truth, and one Gospel, if interpretations be left free to every man, these Libertines gives us millions of faiths with millions of senses, and so no faith at all.
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