A92140:231
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
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2. Peters error, since he believed Christ was come, Matth. 16. 17. was not fundamental, but consistent with faith, yet Paul withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed, and if he had pertinaciously gone on to walk not uprightly according to the truth of the Gospel, since Paul would not have given place by subjection to such, no not for an hour, Gal. 2. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. he should have been worthy of more then rebuke, yea of higher censure, the like we must say of Barnabas and other Jews, who all sinned though in a far inferior degree with these, who came in privily to spy out the Christian liberty of the Gentiles to bring them into bondage, under the Ceremonial law.
2. Peters errour, since he beleeved Christ was come, Matth. 16. 17. was not fundamentall, but consistent with faith, yet Paul withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed, and if he had pertinaciously gone on to walke not uprightly according to the truth of the Gospel, since Paul would not have given place by subjection to such, no not for an houre, Gal. 2. 11, 12, 13, 14, 15. he should have been worthy of more then rebuke, yea of higher censure, the like we must say of Barnabas and other Jewes, who all sinned though in a farre inferiour degree with these, who came in privily to spye out the Christian liberty of the Gentiles to bring them into bondage, under the Ceremoniall law.
3. Gal. 1. 8. Paul saith, If we or an Angel from heaven should preach (any other Gospel) then that which we have preached, let him be accursed; which place, with good warrant, our Divines bring against the unwritten traditions of Papists, of what kind soever they be, fundamentalls or non-fundamentalls, whether they be obtruded as necessary points of salvation or not necessary, but accidentals, or arbitrary points, yet conducing for the better observing of necessary points, for I have proved else-where, that Papists esteem their unwritten traditions, not necessary points of faith, yea many of them to be accidentals, serving onely ad mellus esse,