A92140:666
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
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The Honourable House of Commons say, their true and real intentions are, and endeavours shall be to settle Religion in the purity thereof according to the Covenant. 1Nor can the Parliament loose men from the oath of God, nor put any exposition on the Covenant, other then the words naturally hold forth, nor can any one Parliament obtrude any Law interpretation of the Covenant on the subjects different from the true sense and genuine meaning conceived by the Parliament of the other Kingdom, since it is not the Covenant of any one single Kingdom, nor can we say without mocking of God, and dallying with the oath of God, that the Covenant was conceived in any such doubtsome, equivocal and two faced sense, so as each Kingdom may swear it according to their own sense, and the one sense for, or not against the pretended liberty of conscience, the other for it.
The Honourable House of Commons say, their true and reall intentions are, and endeavours shall be to settle Religion in the purity thereof according to the Covenant. 1Nor can the Parliament loose men from the oath of God, nor put any exposition on the Covenant, other then the words naturally hold forth, nor can any one Parliament obtrude any Law interpretation of the Covenant on the subjects different from the true sense and genuine meaning conceived by the Parliament of the other Kingdome, since it is not the Covenant of any one single Kingdome, nor can we say without mocking of God, and dallying with the oath of God, that the Covenant was conceived in any such doubtsome, equivocall and two faced sense, so as each Kingdome may sweare it according to their owne sense, and the one sense for, or not against the pretended liberty of conscience, the other for it.
- 1Declaration of the House of Commons 1646. April 18.
And both Kingdoms esteem the end of the Wars,