A92140:651
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.
The Honourable Houses engage the whole Kingdom of England to take the Covenant by their Commissioners in a Treaty betwixt the two Kingdoms, which Treaty was ratified in the Parliament of England, and both Kingdoms agree that no means was thought so expedient to accomplish and strengthen the union, as for both Nations to enter into a solemn League and Covenant, and a form thereof drawn and presented to the Convention of Estates, and General Assembly of Scotland, and the two Houses of the Parliament of England, and hath accordingly been done, and received their respective approbation; and
The Honourable Houses ingage the whole Kingdome of England to take the Covenant by their Commissioners in a Treaty betwixt the two Kingdomes, which Treaty was ratified in the Parliament of England, and both Kingdomes agree that no meanes was thought so expedient to accomplish and strengthen the union, as for both Nations to enter into a solemne League and Covenant, and a forme thereof drawne and presented to the Convention of Estates, and Generall Assembly of Scotland, and the two Houses of the Parliament of England, and hath accordingly beene done, and received their respective approbation; and
I.1 Proposition, It is agreed and concluded that the Covenant presented to the Convention of Estates and General Assembly of Scotland, 2and sent to both Houses of the Parliament of England to their brethren of Scotland, and allowed by the Committee of Estates,3 and Commissioners of the General Assembly be swor•• and subscribed by both Kingdoms, […] most […] and conjunction betwixt them, for their mutual defence, against the Papist and Prelatical faction, and their adherents in both Kingdoms, and for pursuance of the ends expressed in the said Covenant.