A92140:258
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.
4 As touching opinions more manifestly erroneous a• Justine Marty• his saving of men […], of they used the light of nature well, though they were ignorant of Christ, the Montanism of Tertullian, and his way of damning […] marriage (which the very Jesuit Tole•u• commiteur in Joan. Said he wrote contro fidem Catholicam, against the Catholic faith) and Augustine his condemning of all in […] dying without Baptism, and Origen his […] at a so•• of purgatory after death, the greek fathers their presidence of good works, and faith as the causes of predestination, their Pelagianism and Semi-pelagianism touching men• freewill beginning and meeting Gods grace, especially, hard sayings of Chrysostom, Greg•• Nyssy•••, and others, and the […] Hieronymus, nostrum est incipere & dei […] […] ⟨p. 100⟩extolling of the Bishop if Rome, for personal gifts, their orations of […] to the Martyrs dead; without [Greek or Hebrew] with that doubtsome condition, if there be […] feeling of our affairs in the dead, which was the ground work of invocation of Saints, it is a question and to be proved, whether the Church and Christian Magistrate (when th•• were any) should tolerate these, for some opinions to truths are as brass, so as we cannot put a stamp of necessity of edification on them, and some are pieces of gold and foundation stones, so other truths are near of blood to fundamentals, and pinnings in the wall, though not foundations, and because the want of them may hurt the […] they must go as pieces of current silver.
4 As touching opinions more manifesty erronious a• Justine Marty• his saving of men 〈…〉, of they used the light of nature wel, though they were ignorant of Christ, the Montanisme of Tertullian, and his way of damning 〈…〉 mariage (which the very Jesuit Toleu commiteur in Joan. Said he wrote contro fidem Catholicam, against the Catholick faith) and Augustine his condemning of all in dying without Baptisme, and Origen his at a so of purgatory after death, the greek fathers their presidence of good works, and faith as the causes of predestination, their Pelagnisme and Semi-plagianisme touching men freewll beginning and meeting Gods grace, especially, hard sayings of Chrysostome, Greg Nyssy, and others, and the Hieronymus, nostrum est incipere & dei