A92140:267
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.
Asser. 1. But 1. Though neither we nor Libertines could define Idolatry nor murder, nor adultery, yet sure the Law of God condemne• Idolatry, murder, adultery […] sins; this is the custom of jugglers and sophisters,1 who deny there is such a thing as robbing, or hedge-robbers, why, what […] hedge-robbing you cannot define it, and not one of twenty, agree with another what hedge-robbers are, therefore there is not such a thing as an hedge-robber. Nor do sorcerers confess they are sorcerers, nor can you tell what so […] it; and there is not such a thing in the world: so many […].
Asser. 1. But 1. Though neither we nor Libertines could define Idolatry nor murther, nor adultery, yet sure the Law of God condemne• Idolatry, murther, adultery 〈…〉 sins; this is the custome of juglers and sophisters,1 who deny there is such a thing as robbing, or hedge-robbers, why, what 〈…〉 hedge-robbing you cannot define it, and not one of twenty, agree with another what hedge-robbers are, therefore there is not such a thing as an hedge-robber. Nor doe sorcerers confesse they are sorcerers, nor can you tell what so 〈…〉 it; and there is not such a thing in the world: so many 〈…〉.
- 1Heresy is a sin as well as Idolatry, though we could neither desine heresy nor Idolatry.Heresie is a sin as well as Idolatry, though we could neither desine heresie nor Idolatry.
Asser. 2. Heresy is not a mere error, nor innocency, but a heinous transgression against God. 1. Because Paul,