A92140:192
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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Mr. John Durie in his Theological consultation maketh three sort of necessary points.1 1. these, without the knowledge of which Christ cannot be known in the covenant of grace, nor by faith retained, which are comprehended in the paction of the covenant. 2. saving points which secretly lurk in these necessary points, yet by just and evident consequence may be deduced there from, though they be not in the express words of the covenant. 3. some things that are profitable, the express knowledge whereof conduceth to the fuller knowledge and faith of these things necessary, yet are not such, but Christ may be believed by simple souls and rested on for salvation, without such a precise form of speaking.
Mr. John Durie in his Theological consultation maketh three sort of necessary points.1 1. these, without the knowledge of which Christ cannot be known in the covenant of grace, nor by faith retained, which are comprehended in the paction of the covenant. 2. saving points which secretly lurk in these necessirie points, yet by just and evident consequence may be deduced there from, though they be not in the expresse words of the covenant. 3. some things that are profitable, the expresse knowledge whereof conduceth to the fuller knowledge and faith of these things necessarie, yet are not such, but Christ may be believed by simple soules and rested on for salvation, without such a precise forme of speaking.
- 1Joan. Durens in consulta. Theologica p. 14, 15.
Augusti. de Trinit. l. 14. c. 1. It is one thing to know what we are to believe, another thing how, or with what certainty we are to believe. 1Nazianz. Orat. 5. de Theol. perinde ea qua ex Scripturis colliguntur, atqui ea qua scribuntur. What is in Scripture by consequence is Scripture: the ignorance of the Resurrection, which was in Scripture to the Sadducees by consequence only was an ignorance of the Scripture […]. 22. 29, 30, 31. and a soul condemning error. It is a question, yea no question, to die denying the resurrection is to die without saith, happily to die ignorant of it, having never heard the