A92140:359
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.
But Minus Celsus saith, 1the words carry a far other sense, to wit, That by sinning he is the author of his […] condemnation, ⟨p. 143⟩because in choosing true Religion, be thinks he both made a right choice, when he hath chosen a false Religion, being deceived by his own judgement, he falleth into damnation, which, miserable man, he hath created to himself, and in which he chooseth to persist, and therefore is to be eschewed. So it is said, the Jews judged themselves unworthy of eternal life, but knowingly they judged not so of themselves, but they did so behave themselves as if they made themselves unworthy of eternal life. So I believe the heretic is called self-condemned, because he doth those things that renders himself worthy of damnation. So Castalio, or he is self-condemned, that is, he is damned, though there were none to condemn him but himself. So Erasmus.
But Minus Celsus saith, 1the words carry a farre other sense, to wit, That by sinning he is the authour of his 〈…〉 condemnation, ⟨p. 143⟩because in chusing true Religion, be thinkes he both made a right choice, when he hath chosen a false Religion, being deceived by his owne judgement, he falleth into damnation, which, miserable man, he hath created to himselfe, and in which he chuseth to persist, and therefore is to be esehewed. So it is said, the Jews judged themselves unworthy of eternall life, but knowingly they judged not so of themselves, but they did so behave themselves as if they made themselves unworthy of eternall life. So I beleeve the hereticke is called selfe-condemned, because he doth those things that renders himselfe worthy of damnation. So Castalio, or he is selfe-condemned, that is, he is damned, though there were none to condemne him but himselfe. So Erasmus.
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