A92140:191
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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and Russi••• in the exposition of the Creed say that which is called the Apostles Creed, came from the Apostles: yet there is no sufficient ground for us to believe the authentic Authority of it. Conrad, worships while he was yet▪ sound▪ de pausis just it & necessariis deserendi papatus. par. 1. dis. 1. the 29. saith of ⟨p. 60⟩these points that are contained in the Apostles Creed: some things are simply necessary for salvation,1 without which faith and repentance cannot be 2. some not so necessary, yet profitable and of themselves saving. 3. other things by consequence and by accident are necessary, not of themselves and separate from the fundamentals, the Church of Rome errs in the fundamentals, in the doctrine of our Saviour and his offices, in the doctrine of merit, humane satisfactions, indulgences, the Scriptures, the Church. In the 2. they err about baptism, the Lords supper, confirmation, unction, penance, though of themselves they happily deprive not of life eternal, yet because the subject about which the matter is versed is most necessary, they are pernicious errors. These of the third sort touching creation, providence, mortification, though of themselves they might be called errors, simple ignorance, yet for the dangerous consequences, they are pernicious heresies.
and Russi••• in the exposition of the Creed say that which is called the Apostles Creed, came from the Apostles: yet there is no sufficient ground for us to believe the authentick Authoritie of it. Conrad, worships while he was yet▪ sound▪ de pausis just it & necessariis deserendi papatus. par. 1. dis. 1. the 29. saith of ⟨p. 60⟩these points that are contained in the Apostles Creed: some things are simply necessarie for salvation,1 without which faith and repentance cannot be 2. some not so necessarie, yet profitable and of themselves saving. 3. other things by consequence and by accident are necessarie, not of themselves and separate from the fundamentals, the Church of Rome erres in the fundamentals, in the doctrine of our Saviour and his offices, in the doctrine of merit, humane satisfactions, indulgences, the Scriptures, the Church. In the 2. they erre about baptisme, the Lords supper, confirmation, unction, pennance, though of themselves they happily deprive not of life eternall, yet because the subject about which the matter is versed is most necessary, they are pernicious errors. These of the third sort touching creation, providence, mortification, though of themselves they might be called errours, simple ignorance, yet for the dangerous consequences, they are pernicious heresies.