A92140:215
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.
To determine what is fundamental, what not, and the number of fundamental points, and the least measure of knowledge of fundamentals, in which the essence of saving faith may consist, or the simple want of the knowledge of which fundamentals, is inconsistent […] saving faith in minimo quod non, is more then Magistrat• or Church can well know. Sure it borders with one of Gods secrets, touching the final state of salvation, or damnation of particular men.
To determine what is fundamentall, what not, and the number of fundamentall points, and the least measure of knowledge of fundamentals, in which the essence of saving faith may consist, or the simple want of the knowledge of which fundamentalls, is inconsistent 〈…〉 saving faith in minimo quod non, is more then Magistrat• or Church can well know. Sure it borders with one of Gods secrets, touching the finall state of salvation, or damnation of particular men.
And it is as sure, this is a fundamental, to belie•• that God is, that he is a rewarder of those that seek hi•, that there is not a name under Heaven by which men may […] saved, but by the Name of Jesus that no man […] come to the Father, but by Christ, that he that […] ⟨p. 65⟩not, the wrath of God abideth on him, and he is condemned […], then he was condemned and under wrath before, even from the womb.
And it is as sure, this is a fundamentall, to belie•• that God is, that hee is a rewarder of those that seeke hi•, that there is not a name under Heaven by which men may 〈…〉 saved, but by the Name of Jesus that no man 〈…〉 come to the Father, but by Christ, that hee that