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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
Chapter 10: Of indulgence in fundamentall, or non-fundamentall errors.
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.
CHAP. X. Of indulgence in fundamentall, or non-fundamentall errors.
But say the Arminians,1 the question is of Heretics, not of those who dare deny the things openly decided in the Scripture, but of those who call in question those things that are, or may be controverted. There was never an Heretic who called in question whether thieves,2 drunkards, robbers, railers, Idolaters, shall enter into the Kingdom of heaven, or whether God be to beloved above all things, he is not a Christian, he is not an heretic, but worse than a heretic who denies those things that are plain and obvious in scripture. But he that layeth a law upon others, which he must follow under pain of death, imprisonment or banishment in things belonging to liberty of prophesying, which are conjoined with the reverence of God and the scripture, trampleth all prophesies under foot.
BUt say the Arminians,1 the question is of Hereticks, not of those who dare deny the things openly decided in the Scripture, but of those who call in question those things that are, or may be contraverted. There was never an Heretick who called in question whether theeves,2 drunkards, robbers, railers, Idolaters, shall enter into the Kingdome of heaven, or whether God be to beloved above all things, he is not a Christian, he is not an hereticke, but worse than a hereticke who denyes those things that are plain and obvious in scripture. But he that layeth a law upon others, which he must follow under pain of death, imprisonment or banishment in things belonging to liberty of prophecying, which are conjoyned with the reverence of God and the scripture, trampleth all prophesies under foot.