A92140:235
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.
Yea, 5. We believe with certainty of faith, many things which are not fundamentals, as 2 Pet. 3. 8. But (beloved) be not ignorant of this one thing, that one day is with the Lord as a thousand years, and a thousand years as one day. How many (suppose we) are in glory that dyed ignorant of this, and had not ⟨p. 76⟩faith, or any certainty of faith of this point, that time […] with God no coexistence of a duration long and […] Yet Peter proposeth it to be believed with certain•y of faith, and how many points of sacred history doth the […] Ghost tell us Heb. 11. of Cain and Abel's sacrificing, […] Abraham sojourning in a strange Country, of Sarabs […] a child in her old age, of Isaacks blessing of Jacob, and Josephs worshipping leaning on the end of a staff, Moses being hid three months, the falling of the Walls of Jericho, which we believe by certainty of divine faith, that are not fundamentals? Yea, and if we believe not whatever Paul and the rest of the Apostles have written, and what Moses and the Prophets, have said, we must take them to be false witnesses in saying, preaching, & writing what is not true, as Paul […], 1 Cor. 15. 15. and the Apostles saith, Act. 5. 32. And we are his […] of these things, and so is also the Holy Ghost. Now […] things refer not only to Christs death and resurrection, but to points not fundamental: as namely who were the Instruments of his death, even the high-Priest, Pharisees and chief-Priests, ver. 30. Whom ye slew and hanged on • tree, Act. 4. 10. Whom ye crucified, Act. 2. 36. Whom ye have crucified. Now the Apostles and the Holy Ghost were witnesses of the truth of both fundamentals and non-fundamentals, of all that Jesus began to do and teach, until the day […] was taken up to heaven, as is clear,