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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. All should be admitted to Synods because Religion concerneth the Conscience of all, or if it be confusion to admit all to come, yet should no decision be, except first all the Church be acquainted with the business.
Armini. All should be admitted to Synods because Religion concerneth the Conscience of all, or if it be confusion to admit all to come, yet should no decision be, except first all the Church be acquainted with the businesse.
Answ. God never appointed all and every one to lay burden and Directories or Laws upon themselves as is clear Act. 15. God keeps ever that order in his Church of some to teach and some to be taught, of some to obey and some to be over others in the Lord: that before Laws be made that concern the conscience, there should be a reference of all made to the people, and they acquainted with reasons from the word of God before a decision: we shall not condemn, but it is nothing against us.
Answ. God never appointed all and every one to lay burdene and Directories or Lawes upon themselves as is cleare Act. 15. God keeps ever that order in his Church of some to teach and some to be taught, of some to obey and some to be over others in the Lord: that before Lawes bee made that concerne the conscience, there should be a reference of all made to the people, and they acquainted with reasons from the word of God before a decision: we shall not condemn, but it is nothing against us.
Armini. 1These that come to Synods ought to be engaged to be Church, or to no Confession. But every way free.