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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 This is to teach us to be carried about with every wind of doctrine, whereas faith of fundamentals or non-fundamentals is to believe a truth, because so saith the Lord, that cannot lye, nor speak untruth, but you will men to believe those non-fundamental truths, so as they may be as well lies as divine truths
2 This is to teach us to be carried about with every wind of doctrine, whereas faith of fundamentals or non-fundamentals is to beleeve a truth, because so saith the Lord, that cannot lye, nor speake untruth, but you will men to beleeve those non-fundamental truths, so as they may bee as well lyes as divine truths
3.1 These Precepts, Try the Spirits, Try all things, enjoin an examination of fundamentals, as well as non-fundamentalls: and what reason have Independents to say these Precepts hold in non-fundamentalls onely. Mr. John Goodwin with better ground saith, they hold in all, for must we hold that which is good onely in non-fundamentalls? And did not the Bereans try Pauls doctrine by the Scripture, in the most and only necessary fundamental which Paul preached, that Jesus Christ was the Messiah that dyed, rose again, Act. 17. 3. and are therefore commended by the Holy Ghost, v. 10. 11? above those of Thessalonica, and must we believe every Spirit who preach fundamental truths, or fundamental errors, who say Christ is not yet come in the flesh, upon trust? the contrary of which John expressly enjoineth, 1 Joh. 4. 1, 2, 3: yea we are rather to try fundamentals, and to walk upon sure and unmoveable principles, since an error here hazardeth our eternal salvation, and is of as great concernment as our souls are, but errors or mistakes in non-fundamentalls, though they be sins, yet are consistent with saving faith, and the state of salvation.
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