A92140:819
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.
4. Those that faithful Elders are to beware of, and to watch against, are knowable; but the faithful Elders of Ephesus are to watch against the incoming of grievous wolves, Act. 20. 29, 30, 31.
4. Those that faithfull Elders are to beware of, and to watch against, are knowable; but the faithfull Elders of Ephesus are to watch against the incomming of grievous wolves, Act. 20. 29, 30, 31.
5. Those that the Holy Ghost doth forewarn the Saints of, that they may be rooted in the truth, and armed against them, those are knowable. But Christ foretold his people that some would come in his name, and profess so much, ⟨p. 355⟩who yet come in their own name. Paul foretells of some who shall speak lies in hypocrisy, and teach doctrines of Devils, 1 Tim. 4• ▪ and Peter, 2 Pet. 2. 1, 2, 3. tele of some bringing in privily damnable heresies, doth the Lord bid us judge in charity all these tares to be wheat, and their heresies truths, because we are not infallible? and doth he foretell of such coggers and jugglers, and yet presupposeth none on earth shall be able to know them? and if any man say Familists, Socinians, &c. are these men, they run the hazard of reproaching God, notwithstanding the Lord foretold us of them, and set marks upon their brows 1600 years ago? or if any now say there is a false teacher, or an heretic breathing on earth, they must either give themselves out to be infallible, and so must either be grand impostors, or then Apostles and Prophets living again.1