A92140:78
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.
In order to the Assumption it specially doth be•re witness and testify of its own acts,1 both that the man hath done this fact; And 2. of the quality of it, that it is done against God, the Mediator Christ, free grace, the word of reconciliation; as a faithful witness must not only depone the fact, but all the circumstances and qualities, in so far as they come under the senses of seeing and hearing, and may aggravate the fact, and give light to the Judge; and what testimony the Conscience giveth of the actions of man, the like it is to give of the state and condition, whether it be good or ill, hence these acts of recognition. As 1. Conscience doth its duty in reflecting on it self: It tries the mans actions and state; hence these three words, 2 Cor. 13. 5. try, or tempt, or pierce, and dig into your selves; [Greek or Hebrew], many dig holes and windows in the conscience of others who never digged a hole in their own heart, 2. [Greek or Hebrew], examine what metal is in your selves and actions, men are unwilling to find oar or dross in themselves; and we are bidden, 1 Cor. 11. 31. [Greek or Hebrew], lead witnesses, sentence and Judge our selves. To these generals there is a second act, which is called, Psalm. 4. 5. Speak with your heart. You testify little of the man that you never heard speak. Men are frequently to converse with their heart by heart-communing, and soul queries; so you find out the by as and the weight that sways with the heart, Jer. 5. 24. Neither say they in their hear, let us now fear the Lord our God. Hos. 7. 2. They say not in their heart, that I consider all their wickedness▪
In order to the Assumption it specially doth be•re witnesse and testifie of its own acts,1