A92140:623
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
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CHAP. XXII. The pretended Liberty of Conscience is against the National League and Covenant, and the Ordinances of the Parliament of England engaged by Oath for a Reformation of Religion.
CHAP. XXII. The pretended Liberty of Conscience is against the Nationall League and Covenant, and the Ordinances of the Parliament of England ingaged by Oath for a Reformation of Religion.
A Midst our greatest fears, and the enlarged sorrows of our heart, for the calamitous condition of our dear brethren in England, by reason of an unnatural war raised by a Prelatical, popish and malignant party, tending to the destruction of the Kingdom, subversion of Religion, Laws, and Liberties, we exceedingly rejoiced, when the Lord mighty in counsel▪ did lay in Zion the foundation of a hopeful building▪ and stirred up the spirits of the Honourable Houses of Parliament to declare to the Commissioners of the General Assembly of the Kirk of Scotland their sense of Church government,1 by Archbishops, Bishops, &c. to be dishonourable to God, by arrogating to themselves a preeminence and power which he had not given, justly offensive to the Kingdom, a great impediment to the growth of Religion, and promising to remove the same, desired for the obtaining of a• happy union with the Church of Scotland,2 and other Reformed Churches abroad, the General Assembly to send to the Assembly of Divines at Westminster, some godly and learned Divines of that Church, whereby an uniformity in form of Church government might ⟨p. 264⟩[…] ⟨p. 265⟩[…] ⟨p. 266⟩