A92140:341
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.
Libertines bewilder themselves, 1and the Reader, both touching an erroneous conscience, and the obligation thereof, Mr. Williams saith, Such a person (what ever his doctrine be, true or false) suffereth persecution for conscience; as Daniel was cast into the Lions den, and many thousand Christians, and the Apostles were persecuted, because they durst not cease to prea•• and practise what they believed was by God commanded.
LIbertines bewilder themselves, 1and the Reader, both touching an erroneous conscience, and the obligation thereof, Mr. Williams saith, Such a person (what ever his doctrine be, true or false) suffereth persecution for conscience; as Daniel was cast into the Lions den, and many thousand Christians, and the Apostles were persecuted, because they durst not cease to prea•• and practise what they beleeved was by God commanded.
- 1Bloody Tenet c 3 p. 19.
But this is a foul mistake, Daniel suffered not for conscience simply, because he practised what he believed to be truth, but because he practised what he truely congr•enter Dei voluntati revelatae, congruously and agreeably to the revealed will of God, he believed, and the like is to be said of the Apostles, not the conveniency, and commensurableness of their practise, and their conscience simply, but their believing, ⟨p. 133⟩•all modo, such a way made their sufferings to be sufferings for righteousness sake; for then must we say that Paul persecuted with the tongue, the Corinthians for their conscience,