A92140:200
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.
Now these teachers knew that the Apostles and Elders and Saints at at Jerusalem were not circumcised so, and they knew believing Gentiles were not circumcised at all, and yet they knew the Apostles were not damned, they knew all children dying before the eight day were not damned, they must then hold that Circumcision was only necessary to salvation, by way of precept: and the brethren that believed and so if they had dyed in that state had undeniably been saved, were ignorant of this; and v. 7. there was much disputing among believers yea among the Apostles who were not ignorant of fundamentals: and undoubtedly had saving faith long before, Math. 16. 17. 18. till James fully determined the question from the word of God. v. 13, 14, 15, 16. then it is most clear that these that err in other points that are not fundamentals in which all Christians agree may be perverters of souls and so deserve to be ⟨p. 64⟩rebuked by the Church and punished. 3. This opinion of so […] ring all, save such as err in fundamentals, though they […] non fundamentals is grounded upon this, that the Scripture is evidently plain and clear in fundamentals,1 but in other points […] non-fundamentals, the Scripture is dark, and in regard of the darkness and natural ignorance of our mind which is in•• cible almost, we must forbear one another and give and take elbow-room and latitude of indulgence, because the Magistrate and Church are not infallible, but both Godly and learned may be on each side, so that there should be no peace nor union of hearts in Christian societies, but all Churches or earth must disband and be dissolved, if each should punish and censure one another for holding contrary tenets.
Now these teachers knew that the Apostles and Elders and Saints at at Jerusalem were not circumcised so, and they knew believing Gentiles were not circumcised at all, and yet they knew the Apostles were not damned, they knew all children dying before the eight day were not damned, they must then hold that Circumcision was onely necessary to salvation, by way of precept: and the brethren that believed and so if they had dyed in that state had undeniably been saved, were ignorant of this; and v. 7. there was much disputing among believers yea among the Apostles who were not ignorant of fundamentals: and undoubtedly had saving faith long before,