A92140:127
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
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Ans. 1The learned and renowned professors of Leiden answer the end of Synods is not by any means good or bad to remove controversies but to bury them by the power of the word. 2. Only external peace separated from truth should not be intended, but conjoined with truth and peace of conscience. 3. The end of Synods is not effectually and actu secundo to silence heretics and gain-sayers of the truth, nor is it Christs scope in convincing the Sadducees that the dead must rise Math. 22. to persuade the truth, so as there shall never be on earth Sadducee again who denies the resurrection, for in Pauls and in the Apostles time the Sadducees still denied the resurrection, ⟨p. 33⟩after the Synod of Jerusalem Acts 15. There arose many that said we must keep the Law of Ceremonies, but the end of Synods is to do what may actu prime, remove controversies and silence Heretics by clearing scripture, and truth, but the end is not to remove obstinacy that is not the scope of Synods nor of preaching, nor of the scriptures, but of all these are in the event as God blesseth them and concurreth with them: the end of Synods is not to oppress or deprive ministers, the end of despised and obstinately refused truth is such.
Ans. 1The learned and renowned professors of Leiden answer the end of Synods is not by any means good or bad to remove controversies but to burie them by the power of the word. 2. Onely externall peace separated from truth should not be intended, but conjoyned with truth and peace of conscience. 3. The end of Synods is not effectually and actu secundo to silence hereticks and gain-sayers of the truth, nor is it Christs scope in convincing the Sadduces that the dead must rise Math. 22. to perswade the truth, so as there shall never be on earth Sadducie again who denies the resurrection, for in Pauls and in the Apostles time the Sadducies still denyed the resurrection, ⟨p. 33⟩