A92140:268
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. 2. Heresy is not a mere error, nor innocency, but a heinous transgression against God. 1. Because Paul, Gal. 5. ver. 119, 20, 21. reckoneth heresies among the works of •he flesh, with Idolatry, witchcraft, envy, strife, and sedition, then it is a work of the devil, and of sinful flesh. 2. That which God permitteth, that those that are approved may be made manifest in the Church of Christ, that must be a sin, but such is heresy, 1 Cor. 11. 19. 3. Grievous wolves not sparing the flock, false Prophets, and false Christs, who deceive (if it were possible) the very elect, such as make their Disciples twofold the children of the devil, thieves and robbers, who come to steal and to kill, and to drink the blood of souls, these who subvert whole houses, and whose word eat as a gangrene, are not innocent, and simply erring men, nor is their error, simple error, but a high transgression against God, but such are heretics, Act. 20. 29, 30. Mat. 24. 24. Mat. 23. 15. Joh. 10. 8, 9, 10 Tit. 1. 11. 2 Tim. 2. 17. 4. These who are deceivers and deceived, unruly, and vain talkers, to be rebuked sharply, that they may be sound in the faith, and these, whom we are not to receive into our houses, nor bid them God speed, least we be partakers of their evil doings, these of whom we are to be aware, lest they ensnare us, and whom we are, after once or twice admonition, to reject, and from whom we are to turn away, must be such as do more then simply err in mind, and their errors being so pernicious must come out of him that erreth, and subverteth whole houses, and lead […] women captive laden with divers lusts, and must be subject to commands of those that are in place, since they are to be sharply