A92140:256
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.
2 For diverse expositions of one and […] Heavens and new Earth, when […] of the expositions, so far as is revealed •o the godly and learned, who in this life do but know and prophesy in part, do neither doubt the foundation, […] truth, that is non-fundamentall, we think the opinion of both may be tolerated, even though the one of them be in it self an error, and that upon the ground that Church and Magistrates both are to tolerate, not to punish these infirmities, against both tables, that are the necessary results of sin original, common to all men, as men, […] about with them a body of sin. And the like I say another the like opinions about matters of religion, and especially matters of fact, as the virginity of Mary for all her life.
2 For diverse expositions of one and 〈…〉 Heavens and new Earth, when 〈…〉 of the expositions, so farre as is revealed •o the godly and learned, who in this life doe but know and prophesie in part, doe neither doubt the fundation, 〈…〉 truth, that is non-fundamentall, we think the opinion of both may be tollerated, even though the one of them be in it selfe an errour, and that upon the ground that Church and Magistrates both are to tollerate, not to punish these infirmities, against both tables, that are the necessary results of sin originall, common to all men, as men, 〈…〉 about with them a body of sin. And the like I say another the like opinions about matters of religion, and especially matters of fact, as the virginity of Mary for all her life.
3 Such opinions and practise ••as make an evident schism in a Church, 1and set up two distinct Churches, of different forms of Government, and pretending to different institutions of Christ, of which the one must by the nature of their principles labour the destruction of the other, cannot be tolerated, &c. for each pretending their fellow Churches to be of man, and so of the devil, though they should both make one true invisible Church, agreeing in all fundamentals, and many other truths, yet sure the whole