A92140:626
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.
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.
We therefore the Commissioners of the Kirk of Scotland according to the trust committed to us, are necessitated in the name of Jesus Christ the only King and head of his Church, and at the commandment, and in the name of ⟨p. 267⟩the Kirk of Scotland to protest, and by these presents do protest and declare against the said pretended toleration as followeth.
We therefore the Commissioners of the Kirk of Scotland according to the trust committed to us, are necessitated in the name of Jesus Christ the onely King and head of his Church, and at the commandement, and in the name of ⟨p. 267⟩the Kirke of Scotland to protest, and by these presents doe protest and declare against the said pretended tolleration as followeth.