A92140:655
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.
Such a toleration must thwart and cross the professed sincere intentions of the Honourable Houses for uniformity and the advancement of true Religion, 1out of which there will also undoubtedly result, a most firm and stable union between the Kingdoms, and contrary to that proposed end of the Covenant, and of all our travels for Reformation, which the Assembly of Divines testified at the special command of the House of Commons assembled in Parliament to be aimed at by both Kingdoms in this defensive war, in letters sent to the reformed Churches abroad in France, Helvetia, Geneva. Wallachia, &c. (what a letter most contradicent to that might they now write?2) whereas this toleration must be the sad scandalizing and sorrow of all Reformed Churches in the Christian world, the joy and triumph of Papists, the mocking and despising of the ways of Christ, to Heathens within, to Atheists round about, the saddening of all the godly, the condemning of our former ways, as acts of apostasy from God, and rebellion and dis-loyalty to our Prince.
Such a tolleration must thwart and crosse the professed sincere intentions of the Honourable Houses for uniformity and the advancement of true Religion, 1out of which there will also undoubtedly result, a most firme and stable union between the Kingdomes, and contrary to that proposed end of the Covenant, and of all our travels for Reformation, which the Assembly of Divines testified at the special command of the House of Commons assembled in Parliament to be aimed at by both Kingdomes in this defencive warre, in letters sent to the reformed Churches abroad in France, Helvetia, Geneva. Wallacria, &c. (what a letter most contradicent to that might they now write?2) whereas this tolleration must be the sad scandalizing and sorrow of all Reformed Churches in the Christian world, the joy and triumph of Papists, the mocking and dispising of the wayes of Christ, to Heathens within, to Atheists round about, the sadning of all the godly, the condemning of our former wayes, as acts of apostacy from God, and rebellion and dis-loyalty to our Prince.