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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 It is a question,1 if any be called an Heretic in the word, because he moves such questions. 1. The Heretic here is subverted, and so turned off the foundation Christ. But he that moveth vain and unprofitable questions can at best, but build his hay & stubble upon the foundation Christ; now such a man may be builded on the foundation, and saved, though the fire destroy his work, and so he is not turned off the foundation. Yea, if he wittingly and willingly move vain and light questions he cannot be saved, nor doth that follow, for his knowledge of the levity of these questions aggravates his sin, but cannot cause to amount to a sin so high as to subvert the mans faith, because he may keep the foundation, though he hold these vain and light opinions, for they are not in themselves destructive of the foundation. 2. There is no mention, nor any hint here of vain and light questions, but of admonished heretics, therefore Eusebius l. 4. c. 13. refers it to those that deny Christs divinity, to Marcion and Corinthus, and they say John would not stay in the stoves with Cerinthus, 2and Polycarpus his disciple would not speak with Marcion, but said, I know thee to be the first borne of Satan.
2 It is a question,1 if any bee called an Hereticke in the word, because he moves such questions. 1. The Hereticke here is subverted, and so turned off the foundation Christ. But he that moveth vaine and unprofitable questions can at best, but build his hay & stubble upon the foundation Christ; now such a man may bee builded on the foundation, and saved, though the fire destroy his worke, and so he is not turned off the foundation. Yea, if he wittingly and willingly move vain and light questions he cannot be saved, nor doth that follow, for his knowledg of the levity of these questions aggravates his sin, but cannot cause to amount to a sin so high as to subvert the mans faith, because he may keepe the foundation, though he hold these vaine and light opinions, for they are not in themselves destructive of the foundation. 2. There is no mention, nor any hint here of vaine and light questions, but of admonished heretickes, therefore Eusebius l. 4. c. 13. referres it to those that deny Christs divinity, to Marcion and Corinthus, and they say John would not stay in the stoves with Cerinthus,