A92140:232
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.
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, 1for order and decency, yea and great Doctors of them say, neither the Pope nor the Church can devil novum dogma fidei, a new article of Faith, or a new Sacrament: nor can we say that the adding of Romish ceremonials, such as consecrating of Churches, baptising of bells, sign of the cross, are fundamental ⟨p. 74⟩errors, and inconsistent with saving faith; the text Gal. 1. 8, 9. evinceth that they or some other Gospel or doctrine, beside that the Galatians had learned (for Paul taught the Galatians many points besides fundamental only) and so that the teachers of them were accursed, and so to be separated from, rebuked, withstood, censured, yea cut off as troublers of the Church, Gal. 5.
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 kinde soever they be, fundamentalls or non-fundamentalls, whether they be obtruded as necessary points of salvation or not necessary, but accidentalls, 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,