A92140:668
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 profess an union in doctrine,1 discipline, and worship, to be a more strong bulwark against the bloody practises of Papist, and deceitful errors of other Sectaries, and more profitable use of the Ministry. Other Sectaries can be no other then such as swarm and abound in the Army and Kingdom.
The Honourable Houses professe an union in doctrine,1 discipline, and worship, to be a more strong bulwarke against the bloody practises of Papist, and deceitfull errors of other Sectaries, and more profitable use of the Ministery. Other Sectaries can be no other then such as swarme and abound in the Army and Kingdome.
- 1Return to the Commiss. of the Gen. Assem p. 4.Returne to the Commiss. of the Gen. Assem p. 4.
And this diversity of Religions by toleration utterly weakens,1 yea and dissolveth the blessed union between the Kingdoms: For the Houses say, Religion cannot be altered in the one Kingdom without the other, 2and the Lord would not have put it in the hearts of both Kingdoms, if he had been minded to destroy us. They acknowledge that Religion is the band and foundation of the safety and happiness of both Kingdoms. When therefore God suffers it to enter into our hearts to break our Covenant with God and our Brethren, the Lord hath a mind to disquiet the inhabitants of England, 3so as the fierce anger of the Lord and his jealousy must smoke against them as fire.