A92140:216
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.
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 〈…〉 ⟨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 wombe.
Nor is this a good argument of Bellius, where Christ is, what he doth, how he sits at the right hand of God, how he is one with the Father, many things of the Trinity, of God, Predestination, Angels, the state of men after this life, are points not so necessary to be known, for publicans and harlots who enter into heaven, may be ignorant of them, and though they were known, they make not a man better, according to that, if I had all knowledge, if I have not love, it is nothing.
Nor is this a good argument of Bellius, where Christ is, what he doth, how he sits at the right hand of God, how he is one with the Father, many things of the Trinity, of God, Predestination, Angels, the state of men after this life, are points not so necessary to be known, for publicans and harlots who enter into heaven, may be ignorant of them, and though they were knowne, they make not a man better, according to that, if I had all knowledge, if I have not love, it is nothing.