A92140:55
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.
Conscience is considered by Divines as a principle of our acting in order to what the Lord commandeth us in she law and the Gospel; and it cometh here to be considered, in a three-fold consideration. 1. As Conscience is in its abstract nature; yet as it is in man only, I speak nothing of the conscience of Angels, and Devils. 2. As the Conscience is good or bad; for the conscience in Adam, before the fall was in a great perfection, and the Glorified spirits carry a good conscience up to heaven with them, as the damned take to hell a peace of hell within them, an evil conscience, yet their was neither in Adam, not can there be in the Glorified, an evil conscience, nor any such accidental acts of Conscience, as to accuse, smite, torment.
Conscience is considered by Divines as a principle of our acting in order to what the Lord commandeth us in she law and the Gospel; and it commeth here to be considered, in a three-fold consideration. 1. As Conscience is in its abstract nature; yet as it is in man only, I speak nothing of the conscience of Angels, and Devils. 2. As the Conscience is good or bad; for the conscience in Adam, before the fall was in a great perfection, and the Glorified spirits carrie a good conscience up to heaven with them, as the damned take to hell a peace of hell within them, an evill conscience, yet their was neither in Adam, not can there be in the Glorified, an evill conscience, nor any such accidentall acts of Conscience, as to accuse, smite, tormen•.
3. Conscience is considered as acting well or ill, it hath influence on the affections, to cause a feast of joy, to stir up to faith, hope, sadness &c.
3. Conscience is considered as acting well or ill, it hath influence on the affections, to cause a feast of joy, to stirre vp to faith, hope, sadnesse &c.