A92140:190
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.
That then must be the foundation of faith and salvation which is precisely necessary to be believed by all that are saved Alardas Valek gives us four fundamentals facienda & vitanda things to be done and eschewed in the Decalogue 2. credenda, to be believed in the Creed. 3. roganda, to be sought from God in prayer 4. •surpanda things to be practised, ⟨p. 59⟩as the Sacraments. 1How the repenting thief knew all these, I see not, yet a taste of some of them ye may see and with the infused life of God he was ready to believe and do the rest. For the first he knew robbery and violence to be damned in the Decalogue▪ we are justly here, and repented. 2. for the second,2 he believed in Christ as a King, the Son of God and a Saviour. Christ was accused that he called himself the Son of God and a king, when the man saith of Christ this man hath done nothing amiss: 3he believes him to be the Son of God, and the Saviour who had the keys of paradise at his girdle. 3. he prays to him. Lord remember me when thou comes to thy Kingdom. 4. for external worship or Sacraments, it is like he knew little: yet he confessed Christ a King when his disciples denied him and fled, and the world persecuted him. Cyril Hierosolymitan reduceth them to two; the knowledge of points of faith. 2. the doing of good works. Had he added according to the new covenant it were good. Calvin saith epist 182. I refuse not the Augustine confession. Cui pridem volens & libens subscripsi. sicut eam Author interpretatus est. Yet in the 10. article thereof the substantial body and blood of Christ is said to be really present under the species of bread and wine. 4Ambrose in cap. 9. Lu. negat Christum, qui non omnia qua sunt Christi confitetur. It is only thus far true the that hath sufficient means of believing what the word saith may confess all truths of Christ and doth not deny Christ, but as some do not all the good they may, yet have a saving disposition to it, though either they through infirmities leave it undone, or through want of opportunity, yet believing are saved: So these that want means of knowing and confessing all truths yet have the habit of faith to believe them, though they never actually confess them, do not deny Christ. Though Irenem l. 1. c. 3. Tertullian de Virginibus velandis Augusti. to. 10. de Tempore sar. 2.