A92140:204
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.
Query 3. Whether this hinteth not at […] power of believing, and doing what we can, otherwise God cannot deny further grace, or punish that natural impotency of not knowing or not believing?
Query 3. Whether this hinteth not at 〈…〉 power of believing, and doing what we can, otherwise God cannot deny further grace, or punish that naturall impotency of not knowing or not believing?
Quer. 4. Whether the same query may not be retorted upon the Justice of Gods law, Deut. 13. […], thus whether is it mee• that the just God should command a poo•• miserable seducing Jew, who saith, Let us go and worship strange Gods, since this miserable impostor▪ being a son of sin and wrath by nature, cannot come without much labour and contention of mind, yea nor without some good degree of reason to judge so much as it is probable, nor at all to believe or know certainly, that […] no• the true God, but the God of the Jews, only; excluding on the world from saving means of salvation, is the only true God, only to be served and worshipped, but only by an immediate and supernatural work of the Spirit of God? are men either Jews under the Law, or Gen••les under the Gospel, to be punished and stoned to death, because God hath not •• parted to them his Spirit of Grace, and supernatural […]?
Quer. 4. Whether the same query may not be retorted upon the Justice of Gods law, Deut. 13. 〈…〉, thus whether is it mee• that the just God should command a poo miserable seducing Jew, who saith, Let us go and worship strange Gods, since this miserable impostor being a son of sin and wrath by nature, cannot come without much labour and contention of mind, yea nor without some good degree of reason to judge so much as it is probable, nor at all to believe or know certainly, that no the true God, but the God of the Jews, onely; excluding on the world from saving means of salvation, is the onely true God, onely to be served and worshipped, but onely by an immediate and supernaturall work of the Spirit of God? are men either Jews under the Law, or Genles under the Gospel, to be punished and stoned to death, because God hath not parted to them his Spirit of Grace, and supernaturall ?