A92140:229
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.
Now as Israel said ever, the Creator of the ends of the earth is our God, the tree is but a likeness and resemblance of God, Esa. 18. 18. Esa. 46. 5, 6, 7. so they denied this consequence, ergo, a part of your God is burnt in the fire, and with the coals of your burnt God, you bake bread, roast flesh, and warm your bodies when you are cold, and worship a lye, and an abomination, as the Papists say, we adore very Christ in, and under the accidents of the bread, even the same God-man, Mary's Son, who dyed on the cross; yet they deny this consequence, ergo, a part of your God and Saviour is baken in the oven, eaten, and cast out with the draught, and a part thereof, even of the same floor and dough is made a God by the Priest, and ye say, I will b•• down and worship the residue of that which the baker did bake, and roast, in the oven. and so ye worship a lye, and an abomination, as the old Idolaters did, Esa. 44. yet the Papist will deny this consequence, that he multiplies Gods as loaves are multiplied in an oven; because as Isaiah saith, he knoweth not, he understandeth not, God hath shut his eyes; certainly that knowledge he denies to the Idolator, is the natural knowledge of a natural consequence. if ye worship a bit of an ash-tree, or a bit of bread, ergo, the half of your God, or the quarter thereof, is baken in an oven, ergo, there is a lye, and an abomination in your right hand; then the denial of logical consequences in Religion, and the teaching thereof to others, may be, and is an heresy, and punishable by the Magistrate, as Deut. 13. and Exod. 32. so Christ rebukes Matth. 22. Sadducees as ignorant of the Scripture, when they denied but the consequence or a logical connection, as God is not the God of the dead but of the living, ergo, the dead must rise again, and Abraham must live, and his body be raised from the dead. And 2. the Idolaters who were to dye by the Law of God, Exod. 32. Deut. 13. denied not the true God more then our false teachers do now. We see no reason why