A92140:220
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.
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, 1 Cor. 13. Though I had all knowledge, saith also, though I had all faith, yea though I gave my goods in the poor, and my body to be burnt, I am nothing; that is, I cannot be saved, or any other then a damned hypocrite that tinkles like gold, and is but brass: now by this reason, to give to the poor, to believe omnipotency in miracles, should not be commanded of God.
2. It leanes upon another false ground, that to believe (I speake of an intellectuall 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, 1 Cor. 13. Though I had all knowledge, saith also, though I had all faith, yea though I gave my goods in the poore, and my body to be burnt, I am nothing; that is, I cannot bee saved, or any other then a damned hypocrite that tinkles like gold, and is but brasse: now by this reason, to give to the poore, to believe omnipotency in miracles, should not be commanded of God.
Davenentius thinks a General confession of the Catholic Church sufficient,1