A92140:269
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.
5 Such as do evil and that as false teachers, and resist the truth, at James and Jambres resisted Moses, and do Paul and the faithful preachers of the Gospel much evil, in perverting souls and in withstanding the gospel, as Alexander the copper-Smith did, who subvert whole houses, lead souls captive, deceive many, who speak words which eat the souls of many as a Canker, and subvert the faith of many, though they deny they do evil, or seduce any, or that they intend to seduce any, are evil doers, not innocent. But such are Heretics who privily bring in damnable heresies, and make merchandise of men, with fair words, and buy and sell souls, 2 Pet. 2. 1, 2, 3, 4. 2 Tim. 3. 8. 2 Tim. 4. 14, 15. 2 Tim. 3. 6. 2 Tim. 2. 17, 18. 6 These cannot be innocent, nor free of all commands, rebukes, punishment, whom the holy Ghost stiles proud, perverse disputers, men of corrupt minds, destitute of the truth, 1 Tim. 6. 4, 5. False Christs, Matth. 24. 24. Deceivers, Tit. 1. 11. Men of corrupt minds, reprobate concerning the faith, 2 Tim. 3. 8, 9. Whose folly shall be made known to many, who are self condemned, as knowing (if they would not wink and shut their eyes at noon-day) that they deceive, and are deceived, Tit. 3. 10. 7 These and many other things in these seducing teachers do evidence that heresy, and seducing teaching of Heretics are not a simple disease in the mind, since they are willingly ignorant, 2 Pet. 3. 7. [Greek or Hebrew] as such as believed Baal to be God, and worship him, are such of whom the Lord saith,