A92140:301
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. Again, the Lord maketh the Law and his revealed will in the word, the rule of all our actions, Deut. 5. 31, 32. Deut, 12. 31, 32. Ps. 119. 9. 2 King. 10. 31.
2. Againe, the Lord maketh the Law and his revealed will in the word, the rule of all our actions, Deut. 5. 31, 32. Deut, 12. 31, 32. Ps. 119. 9. 2 King. 10. 31.
3. If that which is called Liberty of prophesying be examined, it is either a liberty of believing, and teaching ⟨p. 117⟩what is intrinsically true according to the word, now this they will not say, for we deny not liberty to prophesy truth to all that are called to publish it.1 Or secondly, it is a liberty to prophesy what is false, which is conceived to be false, that is devilish licence not liberty; sure God hath allowed no such liberty to men to prophesy falsely, and to destroy souls, in this meaning, God hath no more allowed us liberty of prophesying false things, then liberty of killing, whoring, robbing, or lying. Or thirdly, liberty of prophesying is liberty of prophesying truths or falsehood, which yet are conceived to be truth not falsehood by those who prophesy; nor hath God given so a liberty of prophesying,2 for every true liberty of prophesying, God hath given to his Prophets and Apostles, if it be a lawful gift, the use thereof is commanded and enjoined to us, as the Arminians say it is in these words,