A92140:355
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.
And Augustine tells us the Donatists objected the same,1 God compelleth none, but hath given men freewill to obey him, contr. petil. l. 2. c. 83. Epist, 48. ad vincention, Contr. Gaudenti••. l. 1. c. 25 Contr. Cresc. l. 3. c. 51. which I often re-mind the Reader of, and the Donatists also said this compulsion makes hypocrites, when they are compelled to go to hear the word, Augustine answers, Although some that are compelled to bear remain hypocrites and counterfeit, yet for these, such as are sincere, should not have been left ungathered in.
And Augustine tells us the Donatists objected the same,1 God compelleth none, but hath given men freewill to obey him, contr. petil. l. 2. c. 83. Epist, 48. ad vincention, Contr. Gaudenti••. l. 1. c. 25 Contr. Cresc. l. 3. c. 51. which I often re-minde the Reader of, and the Donatists also said this compulsion makes hypocrites, when they are compelled to goe to heare the word, Augustine answers, Although some that are compelled to beare remain hypocrites and counterfeit, yet for these, such as are sincere, should not have been left ungathered in.
- 1Augustin contr. Gau•e•ti• n, l. • c. 24. Et si ficti aliq •i persever•••, non utique ••op er ipsos […] fucra•t colligendi quos viden••s ver••e•.Augustin contr. Gau•e•ti• n, l. c. 24. Et si ficti aliq i persever, non utique op er ipsos fucrat colligendi quos videns vere.