A92140:152
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.
Secondly, we conceive that God hath given to some one single Pastor, and far more to a Synod of Pastors and Doctors a power to rebuke, teach, exhort with all authority 2. ⟨p. 40⟩Tim. 41. 2. To charge Tit. 2. 14. them before the Lord. 1. Tim. 6. 17. to lay on burdens and decrees Act. 15. 28. c. 16. 1. And that all that hear them believe and receive as true what they speak in the Name of the Lord, according to that, he th•• heareth you heareth me; he that despiseth you, despiseth me. […] that will not hear an Ambassador as an Ambassador speaking from his Master and Prince, refuseth to hear the Prince that […] him, yet we say not that they are to be heard without controversy as they object, that is, peremptorily, absolutely as if their word were the very Oracle of God, but they are to be heard, but not but after trying and searching, and not but conditionally in so far as they carry the mind of God along with them, so that there may be an appeal to the Scripture; & place left for examining and trying of their doctrine whether it be so or not.
Secondly, we conceive that God hath given to some one single Pastour, and farre more to a Synod of Pastours and Doctors a power to rebuke, teach, exhort with all authoritie 2. ⟨p. 40⟩Tim. 41. 2. To charge Tit. 2. 14. them before the Lord. 1. Tim. 6. 17. to lay on burdens and decrees Act. 15. 28. c. 16. 1. And that all that heare them believe and receive as true what they speak in the Name of the Lord, according to that, he th•• heareth you heareth me; he that despiseth you, despiseth me. 〈…〉 that will not hear an Ambassadour as an Ambassadour speaking from his Master and Prince, refuseth to hear the Prince that him, yet we say not that they are to be heard without controversie as they object, that is, peremptorily, absolutely as if their word were the very Oracle of God, but they are to be heard, but not but after trying and searching, and not but conditionally in so farre as they carrie the minde of God along with them, so that there may be an appeal to the Scripture; & place left for examining and trying of their doctrine whether it be so or not.