A92140:81
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.
A•er. 1. God speaketh by his own works of Sanctification that we are in Christ, 1 Joh. 2. 3. And hereby we know that we know him, because we keep his commandments. 1 Joh. 3. 14. We know that we have passed from death to life, because we love the Brethren. Now as God speaketh and revealeth his glory, God-head, power, and eternity, by his visible works of creation, so as we may gather by certainty of faith, that God is glorious, wise, omnipotent, eternal, Rom. 1. 19, 20, 21. Psal. 19. 1, 2, 3, 4. Rom. 10. 17, 18, 19, 20 Upon them grounds, when we find in our souls the works of that spirit that raised the Lord from the death, as love to the brethren, because brethren, sincere walking with God, and Christs life, Gal. 2. 20. we may with the certainty of faith, collect that we are the children of God; and if the knowledge of our state in Christ, from the works of Sanctification be but conjectural, and may deceive us, and not a sufficient foundation of sound peace, nor enough to make us unexcusable, that from the sickness of inward heart-love which I feel in my own soul to Christ, I can have no divine assurance that I am in Christ, and cannot be made inexcusable in not believing the spirit dwelleth in me by his acting and working, then we cannot infer Gods infinite wisdom, omnipotency, and eternity, from his works of Creation, and I cannot be inexcusable, if I believe not Gods wisdom and power from the works of creation; is not the pertinacie of unbelief as damnable, when I believe not God acting in his Spirit as sanctifying, as when I believe not God acting in this first workmanship of Creation?
A•er. 1. God speaketh by his owne works of Sanctification that we are in Christ, 1 Joh. 2. 3. And hereby we know that we know him, because we keepe his commandements.