A92140:274
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.
3.1 Nor is the crime, the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, when any do maliciously resist the truth. 1. When there is not a high measure of illumination and persuasion going before, which is not in every heretic. 2. When pertinacy is bent against a side and party of godly men, not so much for despite and malice against them as they are godly; or out of despite to the Spirit of grace, as out of a mind puffed up with love-sickness, of their own learning, and great parts, and undervaluing of a contrary faction, as they suppose, for there be divers branches of opposing the known truth, as from fleshly lusts, 2 Pet. 2. 17. 18. 2 Pet. 3. 3. from pride, 1 Tim. 6. 3, 4, 5. from avarice and love of the world, v. 5. 2 Pet. 2. 3. 15, 16. and yet all maliciously, that are not to be judged the sin against the Holy Ghost, except, it be such an opposing of the known truth as comes from the spiritual malicious opposing of God and his known truth, as the devils did; and it may be also that some heretics sin the sin against the Holy Ghost in teaching lies in hypocrisy, as the Pharisees did, who leave not off for that to be heretics and false teachers.
3.1 Nor is the crime, the blasphemy against the Holy Ghost, when any doe maliciously resist the truth. 1. When there is not a high measure of illumination and perswasion going before, which is not in every hereticke. 2. When pertinacy is bent against a side and party of godly men, not so much for despite and malice against them as they are godly; or out of despite to the Spirit of grace, as out of a minde puft up with love-sicknesse, of their owne learning, and great parts, and undervaluing of a contrary faction, as they suppose, for there be divers branches of opposing the knowne truth, as from fleshly lusts, 2 Pet. 2. 17. 18.