A92140:616
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.
3. There is here a new Trick put on the Covenant, it binds to no truth but what shall appear satisfactorily to the conscience of each swearer to be according to the word of God. If a Merchant ⟨p. 263⟩promise and swear to a simple man to give him for such wares an hundred pounds,1 he gives him but an hundred pounds Scotch, whereas the wares are to the man as dear as an hundred pounds Starling, is the Merchant absolved of his oath and promise, if he pay him but an hundred pounds Scotch? and say, it appears satisfactorily to my Antinomian conscience the […] of no more value then a hundred pound Scotch, and my oath and promise obligeth me to no more then satisfactorily appeareth to my conscience the only rule of my obligation, to be according to equity and justice, and so you are fully paid with an hundred pounds Scotch.
3. There is here a new Tricke put on the Covenant, it bindes to no truth but what shall appeare satisfactorily to the conscience of each swearer to be according to the word of God. If a Merchant ⟨p. 263⟩promise and swear to a simple man to give him for such wares an hundred pounds,1 he gives him but an hundred pounds Scotch, whereas the wares are to the man as dear as an hundred pounds Starling, is the Merchant absolved of his oath and promise, if he pay him but an hundred pounds Scotch? and say, it appeares satisfactorily to my Antinomian conscience the 〈…〉 of no more value then a hundred pound Scotch, and my oath and promise obligeth me to no more then satisfactorily appeareth to my conscience the onely rule of my obligation, to be according to equity and justice, and so you are fully paid with an hundred pounds Scotch.
- 1So Remo•strantes in vindici•s Apol. l. 2. c. 6. 135, 136. nominem, post quam acceptavit decretum, (this Author, post quam accepta•it uramentum) tenri illo diutius quam ea ge quaenus & qundin ipse i co […] sua judica illud esse erum.