A92140:222
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.
I deny not, but these were pious conferences, that at Lipse an. 1631. in which there were on the one side, Matthias Hocus, Polycarpus Leiserus, Henricus Haffuerus; on the other side, Joan. Bergius, Joan. Crotius, Theophilus Nenbergius, who went through the Augustine confession and agreed in the truth, almost in all.
At the agreement or concord of Marpurge, an. 1529. were Luther, Melanchthon, Osiander, Brentius, Stephanus Agricola, who brake not the bond of peace with Zwinglius, Bucer, Hedion, there present.
At the agreement or concord of Marpurge, an. 1529. were Luther, Melanthon, Osiander, Brentius, Stephanus Agricola, who brake not the bond of peace with Zwinglius, Bucer, Hedion, there present.
At the conference of Wittenberg, an. 1536. where were present Capito, Bucerus, Musculus, and other grave Divines of higher Germany; on the other side, Luther, Melanchthon, Pomeranus, Cruciger, in which Luther said, brethren, If ye teach and believe that the true body and true blood of the Lord is exhibited in the Supper, & quod hee percept•o vere fiat, and that truly or really there is a receiving thereof, we agree as brethren; but the truth is, there were contrary faiths touching the presence of Christs body and blood in the Sacrament; and therefore I humbly conceive all such General confessions as must be a coat to cover two contrary faiths, is but a daubing of the matter with untempered mortar; much dealing like this was in the Council of Trent, in which neither Papist nor Protestant was condemned, and yet the truth suffered; I speak not this as if each side could exactly know every lith and vein of the controversy, for we prophesy but in part, but to show I cannot but abominate truth and falsehood, patched up in one confession of faith; for if two men should agree in such a bargain, A covenants with B to give him a ship full of spices; B promises to give an hundred thousand pounds for these spices, A believes they are metaphorical spices he gives, B believes they are the most real and excellent spices of Egypt; B promises a hundred thousand pounds of field stones, A expects good, real, and true money; this were but mutual juggling of one with another. It were another consideration, if both sides agreeing in this General confession were ignorant, and did neither know nor believe any sense that were destructive to the true and sound sense of the Confession, for then they might be saved