A92140:667
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.
And both Kingdoms esteem the end of the Wars,1 an abundant reward of all that we can do or suffer in this cause, to settle Religion, and we have resolved and decreed never to lay down Arms, until truth and peace be settled in this Island upon a firm ⟨p. 279⟩foundation for the present and future generations. Then what ever Kingdom shall resile from the Covenant to a detestable liberty of all pretended truths, as they break with God, so must they break with men, seeing the two Kingdoms are mutually and reciprocally engaged to one another in the means and the end, and they must look that the righteous God shall avenge breach of Covenant, and such apostasy from his truth, with the saddest and heaviest of judgements that we or our fathers have heard of, the rumour whereof shall cause our ears to tingle.
And both Kingdomes esteeme the end of the Warres,1 an abundant reward of all that we can doe or suffer in this cause, to settle Religion, and we have resolved and decreed never to lay downe Armes, untill truth and peace be settled in this Island upon a firme ⟨p. 279⟩foundation for the present and future generations. Then what ever Kingdome shall resyle from the Covenant to a detestable liberty of all pretended truths, as they breake with God, so must they breake with men, seeing the two Kingdomes are mutually and reciprocally ingaged to one another in the meanes and the end, and they must looke that the righteous God shall avenge breach of Covenant, and such apostacie from his truth, with the saddest and heaviest of judgements that we or our fathers have heard of, the rumour whereof shall cause our eares to tingle.
- 1Declaration of both Kingdoms 1643.