A92140:259
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.
Only two or three objections must be removed; 1As 1. Rom. 14. They erred against a Law of God▪ who kept days, and abstained from mea•s, conceiving that the conscience of Gods Law, did enjoin such a practises whereas there was no such Law now, the Apostle was persuaded there were no creatures unclean now; but to him, who, through error of conscience, believed they were unclean, v. 14. Yea the earth bring the Lords, they might eat swines flesh or meats, though sacrificed to Idols, without conscience of a Law, 1 Cor. c. 8. c. 10. yet Paul is so far from censuring such weak ones, that he bid• receive them as brethren, and not trouble them with thorny disputations.
Onely two or three objections must be removed; 1As 1. Rom. 14. They erred against a Law of God▪ who kept dayes, and abstained from mea•s, concei•ing that the conscience of Gods Law, did injoyne such a practises whereas there was no such Law now, the Apostle was perswaded there were no creatures uncleane now; but to him, who, through error of conscience, believed they were uncleane, v. 14. Yea the earth bring the Lords, they might eat swines flesh or meats, though sacrificed to Idols, without conscience of a Law, 1 Cor. c. 8. c. 10. yet Paul is so far from censuring such weake ones, that he bid• receive them as brethren, and not trouble them with thorny disputations.