A free disputation against pretended liberty of conscience tending to resolve doubts moved

The Assumption is clear, because Libertines suppose that the sense of Scripture can be undeniably known to none: what is to one saint a ground of faith, the just contradicent to another is a ground of faith, and what sense to one Saint is an Article of saving faith, to another is a damnable Heresy; and both are to be tolerated, neither corrected nor punished, for since neither are infallible, neither can deserve rebukes or rods, nor punishment civill or Ecclesiastical; because knowing of the word of God in Scripture is not in our freewill, but natural, and whatsoever sense the word offers to the understanding true or false, the man cannot be guilty in receiving the false sense, because he is not punishable therefore, as Libertines argue; and what then should hinder but Jews may be saved in their sense of the old Testament, who yet deny Christ to be come in the flesh? nor are they to be rebuked, far less to be punished by God or man therefore, because 2 Cor. 3. in reading of the Old Testament a veil is over their heart, and if it be injustice in the Magistrate to punish men for Errors which they cannot eschew; can the righteous judge of the world punish them therefore? Ergo, In ⟨p. 361⟩such Errors they are innocent and sin not, and if this be said, what should hinder others to be saved by believing the contrary sense of the old Testament? and the like may be said of the new Testament; and so all Heretics and Sectaries receiving the Scriptures, as Pharisees, Sadducees, Herodians, Papists, Socinians, &c. shall be saved every man in his own Religion, and the sense of this, Eschew an Heretic, to a Saint must be, eschew the company of an heretic; to another Saint it is, Adhere to, and converse with the same saint, for he is no heretic but sound in the saith, and it falsely supposed to be an Heretic, and the Scripture upon this ground hath two contradictory senses, which being believed and practised, must save, and revealeth two contradictory wills of God, and every man may take Scripture as his mind apprehends it;¹ and whereas the Scripture makes it self the judge and determiner of all questions and controversies in religion:

The Assumption is clear, because Libertines suppose that the sense of Scripture can be undeniably known to none: what is to one saint a ground of faith, the just contradicent to another is a ground of faith, and what sense to one Saint is an Article of saving faith, to another is a damnable Heresie; and both are to be tolerated, neither corrected nor punished, for since neither are infallible, neither can deserve rebukes or rods, nor punishment civill or Ecclesiasticall; because knowing of the word of God in Scripture is not in our freewill, but natural, and whatsoever sense the word offers to the understanding true or false, the man cannot be guilty in receiving the false sense, because he is not punishable therefore, as Libertines argue; and what then should hinder but Jewes may be saved in their sense of the old Testament, who yet deny Christ to be come in the flesh? nor are they to bee rebuked, far lesse to be punished by God or man therefore, because