A92140:219
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.
1.1 The spiritual Law of God commands not a conformity between the understanding power of the soul and the Law, to require that the mind conceive, apprehend, and know God, and his will, as he reveals himself to us, which yet is included in the command of loving of God with all the heart, with all the soul, with all the strength, and so with all ⟨p. 66⟩the mind, though that knowledge be directed to no other practice, but belief.
1.1 The spirituall Law of God commands not a conformity between the understanding power of the soule and the Law, to require that the minde conceive, apprehend, and know God, and his will, as he reveales himselfe to us, which yet is included in the command of loving of God with all the heart, with all the soule, with all the strength, and so with all ⟨p. 66⟩the minde, though that knowledge be directed to no other practice, but beliefe.
- 1To know revealed truths of God, is a commanded worship of God.
2. It leans upon another false ground, that to believe (I speak of an intellectual assenting to divine truth•) it being an act of the understanding, and a necessary result of knowledge doth not make a man better, which yet is most false, for beside that it is commanded, not to believe a re••aled truth, is a sin, and renders men morally ill, and wor•• now that text that saith,