A92140:52
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.
Of conscience,1 a little of the Name; 2. Of the thing. The Hebrews express the name by the name of heart. […] which I grant does signify the mind, understanding, will, and by a figure it noteth the heart, 2 Sam. 24. 10. And Davids heart smote him. Solomon saith to Shimei, 1 King. 2. 44. Thou knowest all the evil that thy heart (thy conscience) is privy to.
Of conscience,1 a little of the Name; 2. Of the thing. The Habrewes expresse the name by the name of heart. 〈…〉 which I grant does signifie the minde, understanding, will, and by a figure it noteth the heart, 2 Sam. 24. 10. And Davids heart smote him. Salomon saith to Shimei, 1 King. 2. 44. Thou knowest all the evill that thy heart (thy conscience) is privie to.
- 1The name, Con•••ence.
Conscience is but knowledge with a witness: its observed, that [Greek or Hebrew], Conscience, a Word used about 32. times in the New Testament, is but once by the Translators in the Old Testament, Eccles. 10. 20. Hence it noteth that a Man hath a fellow, or (to speak so) a College-observer with him, and that is God who knoweth first, and perfectly the ways and thoughts of a man, and his conscience is an under-witness, and an observer with God, but a dim and blind beholder in comparison of God. 2. It is a knowledge not as large as that of the whole understanding faculty, but restricted, and in order only to the mans actions, words, thoughts, the condition or state he is […], in Christ, or not in Christ. It so signifieth practical knowledge that there is a Verb Nifhal that signifieth to have a heart,