A92140:289
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.
2. When Servetus and other Martyrs of the Devil dye••, we heard nothing of their singing of Psalms in the fire. Paul […] a swearer, and a drunkard, who denies the Deity of the Son of God, is not one of these. But Celsus (I conceive) thinks the godly martyrs that the bloody mother of fornications Babylon hath killed, for the testimony of Jesus; were heretics, because they had no certainty of faith for the truths they were burnt for, because the faith of Libertines is Scepticism.
2. When Servetus and other Martyrs of the Devill dye••, we heard nothing of their singing of Psalmes in the fire. Paul 〈…〉 a swearer, and a drunkard, who denies the Deity of the Son of God, is not one of these. But Celsus (I conceive) thinkes the godly martyrs that the bloody mother of fornications Babylon hath killed, for the testimony of Jesus; were heretickes, because they had no certainty of faith for the truths they were burnt for, because the faith of Libertines is Scepticisme.
3. Heretics may, before men, pray and acknowledge a Saviour, but as the formal of heresy, so of sound faith is in the heart, and unseen to Celsus, and therefore this argument is but a conjecture, and so Paul, 2 Tim. 3. saith, those that […] from the faith, have but a form of godliness, & deny the power thereof
3. Heretickes may, before men, pray and acknowledge a Saviour, but as the formall of heresie, so of sound faith is in the heart, and unseen to Celsus, and therefore this argument is but a conjecture, and so Paul, 2 Tim. 3. saith, those that 〈…〉 from the faith, have but a form of godlinesse, & deny the power thereof