A92140:128
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.
Armini. 1Synods should not aim at setting up their own authority which in matters of faith is none at all, such decisions are the heart of Popery, and makes all religion without Synods to be uncertain.
Armini. 1Synods should not ayme at setting up their own authoritie which in matters of faith is none at all, such decisions are the heart of Poperie, and makes all religion without Synods to be uncertain.
- 1Remon. c. 25. Apol. 294.
Ans. 1Synods should take care that no man despise their Authority, as Timothy is exhorted by Paul but their Authority in matters of faith is conditional, and so not null. 2. Synods are necessarie ad bene esse, not absolutely, for many are saved, both persecuted Churches, and believers who never had help of Synods to clear their faith. 3. But none more contend then Libertines do for a faith as uncertain as the weather which may change with every new moon. The same also may be said of preaching and a ministry which the Lord Jesus ascending on high gave for the edifying his body the Church, that religion is uncertain without it. For Pastors in public should convince gainsayers and so remove heresies. Tit. 1. 9, 10, 11. 1. Tim. 6. 3, 4 as well as Synods, and Libertines in their conscience know Protestant Synods Lord over the faith of none as if they took to themselves in fallibility as Popish Synods do.
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