A92140:24
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.
Chap. 5. Of Fundamentals, The number of Fundamentals p. 59 A saving disposition of faith to believe all truths revealed, though the man be ignorant of many, may consist with the state of saving grace ibid. Three things among those that are to be believed 1. Things simply necessary. 2. Simply profitable. 3. By consequence necessary; how the Papists err in these page 60 Some Consequences necessary ibid. Builders of Hay and stubble on the foundation may be saved, and those that fall in murder and Adultery out of infirmity may be also saved yet there is no consequence; Ergo, the Magistrate should tolerate both p. 61.
Chap. 5. Of Fundamentals, The number of Fundamentalls p. 59 A saving disposition of faith to beleeve all truths revealed, though the man be ignorant of many, may consist with the state of saving grace ibid. Three things among those that are to be beleeved 1. Things simply necessarie. 2. Simply profitable. 3. By consequence necessarie; how the Papists erre in these page 60 Some Consequences necessary ibid. Builders of Hay and stubble on the foundation may be saved, and those that fall in murther and Adultery out of infirmitie may be also saved yet there is no consequence; Ergo, the Magistrate should tollerate both p. 61.
Chap. 6. Errors in non-fundamentals obstinately holden are punishable. Obstinacy in ceremonies after full information deserveth punishment p. 62 Those that err in non-fundamentals, may deserve to be punished ibid. To teach the necessity of Circumcision, not an error formally & primarily, but by consequence fundamental; and the contrary truth not necessary, necessitate medii ibid. The toleration of all who err in non fundamentals examined p. 64. Queries proposed to M. Joh. Goodwin, who asserteth a Catholic toleration of all religions, upon the ground of weakness of freewill, and want of grace? p. 61 Most arguments of Libertines infer a Catholic toleration in non-fundamentals, as well as in fundamentals p. 64 What deductions the Spirit makes in the soul of an elect knowing but a few fundamentals and going out of this life who knoweth? p. 65. To know revealed truths of God is a commanded worship of God? ibid. One general confession of faith without a particular sense containing the true and Orthodox meaning of the word not sufficient p. 66 Divers pious conferences betwixt us and Lutherans ibid. They hate God and love blasphemies in the consequence who obstinately hold, them in the Antecedent p. 68