A92140:442
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.
3 This had been a well settled law to try all Prophets, who speak from God, and who speak the visions of their own head, all should have passed the grand▪ Jury of an immediate oracle from heaven, and by this there should not have been a false Prophet in all Judea but the Judge might have discovered him, but God never gives this character of an Idolater, Blasphemer, or a false Prophet: The Oracle of Urim hath blacked him as an impostor. But divers other characters the Lord gave. As 1. If he speak not according to the Law. 2. If the good he foretell, never comes to pass. 3. If he •eale the wound with smooth words. 4. If he strengthen the arms of the wicked. When as yet God had made no standing law, he was consulted, and God gave sentence against the man that had broken the Sabbath▪ and that blasphemed▪ but their consulting with God presupposeth by the law of nature, ⟨p. 192⟩the Magistrate should punish such, therefore the pu••ing him in ward was a punishment, only they would have the mind of God touching the manner of his punishment, but sure this was not the ordinary and standing law.
3 This had been a well settled law to try all Prophets, who speake from God, and who speake the visions of their owne head, all should have passed the grand▪ Jury of an immediate oracle from heaven, and by this there should not have been a false Prophet in all Judea but the Judge might have discovered him, but God never gives this character of an Idolater, Blasphemer, or a false Prophet: The Oracle of Ʋrim hath blacked him as an impostor. But divers other characters the Lord gave. As 1. If hee speake not according to the Law. 2. If the good he foretel, never comes to passe. 3. If hee •eale the wound with smooth words. 4. If he strengthen the armes of the wicked. When as yet God had made no standing law, he was consulted, and God gave sentence against the man that had broken the Sabbath▪ and that blasphemed▪ but their consulting with God presupposeth by the law of nature,