A92140:625
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.
But now we are stricken with amazement exceedingly, when we reap no other fruit of our expense of blood, wastation of our Kingdom, attendance on this Assembly four years, but in stead of the nearest uniformity of the Churches of God in the three Kingdoms, in Religion, Confession of faith, form of Church government, Directory for worship and catechising, a far more capacious and wide deformity in all these then there was before our taking of the Covenant, yea or since Christian Religion came first into this Island.
But now we are stricken with amazement exceedingly, when we reape no other fruit of our expence of blood, wastation of our Kingdome, attendance on this Assembly four years, but in stead of the nearest uniformity of the Churches of God in the three Kingdomes, in Religion, Confession of faith, form of Church government, Directory for worship and catechising, a far more capacious and wide deformity in all these then there was before our taking of the Covenant, yea or since Christian Religion came first into this Island.
When we see a licentious toleration in one of the three Kingdoms of all forms and ways of serving God established by Law, and no limitation nor bordering provided to hedge in the fleshly and lawless exorbitances of men, whose apprehensions and fancies of the one only true God in three distinct persons, and of his revealed will in his word, are now by nature vain, superstitious, Idolatrous, blasphemous, impure, and devilish, save only a poor, narrow, and dubious circle of some few fundamentals that may be, and are by men of corrupt minds changed in lies and blasphemies.
When we see a licentious tolleration in one of the three Kingdomes of all formes and wayes of serving God established by Law, and no limitation nor bordering provided to hedge in the fleshly and lawlesse exorbitances of men, whose apprehensions and phancies of the one onely true God in three distinct persons, and of his revealed will in his word, are now by nature vaine, superstitious, Idolatrous, blasphemous, impure, and devilish, save onely a poore, narrow, and dubious circle of some few fundamentalls that may be, and are by men of corrupt mindes changed in lyes and blasphemies.