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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
Chapter 21: Of the Samaritans, and of no compelling of Heathens. How the Covenant bindeth us.
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 did their fundamentals against Familists, Antiscripturists, Socinians, Arians, so appear to your conscience to be according to the word of God, and their Antichristian and tyrannical Presbyteries, that are but, as you say, Episcopal Courts and Consistories appear to be so, and that satisfactorily to your consciences? if so, why judge ye Familists, Socinians, such as deny the Trinity, and such as make all the Saints to be Christ, and Godded with the indwelling fullness of God, to be Gods manifested in the flesh, to be Saints, brethren, the godly party to be indulged? then you must question the fundamentals of the doctrine of Scotland▪ and they did not satisfactorily appear to your conscience to be according to the word of God. And why did you simply without any limitation swear to endeavour the preservation of the Reformed Religion? you should have said, truly Reformed Religion of the Church of Scotland; and why did you swear simply to the doctrine, worship, discipline and government of the Church according to the word of God? when ye knew then, as now, their government was Antichristian, and not according to the word of God? and their doctrine even in fundamentals not so sure but Socinians, Arians, and the Saints your brethren the Familists may hold the contrary, and be tolerated as Saints, and their doctrine, though opposite in fundamentals to ours, may be as satisfactory truths to your conscience as ours of Scotland. Confess and glorify God, you sware the Covenant in a Jesuitical reserved sense, kept up in your mind, as you insinuate pag. 66, 67. and such as the words cannot bear.1
But did their fundamentalls against Familists, Antiscripturists, Socinians, Arrians, so appeare to your conscience to be according to the word of God, and their Antichristian and tyrannicall Presbyteries, that are but, as you say, Episcopall Courts and Consistories appear to be so, and that satisfactorily to your consciences? if so, why judge ye Familists, Socinians, such as deny the Trinity, and such as make all the Saints to be Christ, and Godded with the indwelling fulnesse of God, to be Gods manife••ed in the flesh, to be Saints, brethren, the godly party to be indulged? then you must question the fundamentalls of the doctrine of Scotland▪ and they did not satisfactorily appeare to your conscience to be according to the word of God. And why did you simply without any limitation sweare to endeavour the preservation of the Reformed Religion? you should have said, truly Reformed Religion of the Church of Scotland; and why did you sweare simply to the doctrine, worship, discipline and government of the Church according to the word of God? when yee knew then, as now, their government was Antichristian, and not according to the word of God? and their doctrine even in fundamentalls not so sure but Socinians, Arrians, and the Saints your brethren the Familists may hold the contrary, and bee tollerated as Saints, and their doctrine, though opposite in fundamentalls to ours, may be as satisfactory truths to your conscience as ours of Scotland. Confesse and glorifie God, you sware the Covenant in a Jesuiticall reserved sense, kept up in your minde, as you insinuate pag. 66, 67. and such as the words cannot beare.