A92140:254
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.
But are there no far off […] at all to be […] not learned men give divers and contrary expositions […] one and the same text of Scripture and hath not the Church suffered errors and erroneous […] in godly […] men in all ages even in […], […] have not implored the sword of the […] them, though all errors printed and preached hurt the souls of others more or less.
BUt are there no far off 〈…〉 at all to be 〈…〉 not learned men give divers and contrary expositions 〈…〉 one and the same text of Scripture and hath not the Church suffered errours and erronious 〈…〉 in godly 〈…〉 men in all ages even in 〈…〉, 〈…〉 have not implored the sword of the 〈…〉 them, though all errours printed and preached hurt the soules of others more or lesse.
Answ. Some errors are about things that God […] indifferent, for the time, […] opinion and […] meate• and days, Rom. 14. 1 Cor. 8. […] in these, God gives an indulgence, and bid• us so long as the date of indifferency in doreth, bear with the […] 1 Cor. 8. you shall not find that Paul […] with the unlimited practise of days and meats […] and in all cases, as for the case of scandal, […] the practise, to the scandalizing of the weak, and calleth it soul-murder, and here it in like the Church may suffer sinful ignorances, for •s the Magistrate is not to publish all externals,