A92140:656
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 Houses also declare, if his Majesty had not, denied his consent to a Bill for an Assembly of Divines,1 they had long since manifested to the world their utter dislike of Brownism and Anabaptism. ⟨p. 268⟩As also, 2that it is far from their desire and intentions to let loose the reins of Discipline and Church Government, and to let private persons, and particular Congregations take up what form of worship they please,3 but do hold it requisite there should be through the whole Realm, a conformity to that order which the law enjoins according to the word of God.
The Houses also declare, if his Majesty had not, denied his consent to a Bill for an Assembly of Divines,1 they had long since manifested to the world their utter dislike of Brownisme and Anabaptisme. ⟨p. 268⟩As also, 2that it is farre from their desire and intentions to let loose the reines of Discipline and Church Government, and to let private persons, and particular Congregations take up what forme of worship they please,3 but doe hold it requisite there should be through the whole Realme, a conformity to that order which the law injoynes according to the word of God.
- 1Decla. after the battle of Kenton.
- 2Remon. of the Parl.
- 3Decla. of the Parliament of Scotland, •642. Nov 7 Parliaments Decla. given by their Commissio Aug. 1643.