A92140:255
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.
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,1 sins of infirmity against the second table, •or then human societies must be dissolved, and […] subsist, except there be a reciprocal yielding to the infirmities of men, as they are weak and […]; as we must not make a man an offender for a word, though it be a hasty and sinful word, even in a family where the Lord of the house hath the power of the […], and proportionally in other societies, we would hear Solomon saying, Eccles. 7. 21 Also take not heed to all words that are spoken, least thou leave thy servant curse thee. So it would appear, that some lower errors, that are far off, without the compass of the ordinary discerning of man, and lye at a distance from the […] on (as fundamentals, and Gospel promises lye heard the heart of Christ) may be dispensed with as a conjecture, what became of the meat that Christ eats after his resurrection, ⟨p. 98⟩when he was now in the state of immortality, and some probable opinions that, neither better the holder, no• much promove or hinder the edification of others, are not much to be […], save that […] is sinful, and happily may be tolerated: or whether the heavens and […], after the day of judgement, shall be […] and turned to nothing, and be no […] or if […] shall be renewed, and delivered from vanity and indeed with new […] to stand […] as lasting and eternal […] and witnesses of the glory of God […] Christs, and the redeemed in heaven in […] live in glory to be eternal lectures, and testimonies of the glory of the Lord, Redeemer and Sanctifier of his people […] most probable, and the Scripture may […] to say much some other side.