A92140:275
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
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4. Where men are savingly and soundly persuaded that the business is a matter of salvation, they will not finally and totally err, but that there is such a persuasion in heretics, is utterly denied by us; and where there is a persuasion in great measure, but literal, and historical, and faith thereunto answerable, that the matter is eternal salvation and damnation, that they do not err and lead other captives to their error, is denied, and it is more charity of heretics who are self-condemned by their own heart, Tit. 3. 10. and are willingly ignorant, 2 Pet. 3. 5. then the Holy Ghost allows.
4. Where men are savingly and soundly perswaded that the businesse is a matter of salvation, they will not finally and totally erre, but that there is such a perswasion in heretickes, is utterly denyed by us; and where there is a perswasion in great measure, but literall, and historicall, and faith thereunto answerable, that the matter is eternall salvation and damnation, that they doe not erre and lead other captives to their error, is denyed, and it is more charity of hereticks who are selfe-condemned by their owne heart, Tit. 3. 10. and are willingly ignorant, 2 Pet. 3. 5. then the Holy Ghost allows.
5. Yea this will make heresy and heretics that are to the Holy Ghost seducers, •a•ching wolves, subverters of the faith of others, thieves, and robbers, foxes, reprobate concerning the faith, self-condemned; to be godly, zealous, innocent, erring against their will; free of malice, and so the Holy Ghost must do a great deal of injury •o […] who go for heretics, in this characterizing them […] us […] titles and characters, which no mortal man can give to them.