A92140:841
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
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4. Weak, dry, and sapless should be our faith, all our patience and consolations of the Scriptures, Rom. 15. 4. all our hope on the word of God, Ps. 119 49, 50, 52, 54, 55. all our certainty of faith, if it were so as Mr. Goodwin averreth. But we have [Greek or Hebrew] a more sure word of Prophecy, surer then that which was heard on the Mount for our direction, and the establishing of our faith, 2 Pet. 1. 19. Joh. 5. 39. Search the Scriptures, for they bear witness of me; let them be judge between the Jews and me, whether I be the Son of God or no, for they bear witness of me: now if we have no better warrant, that the books of the Old and New Testament, that we now have, to wit, the original of Hebrew and Greek and translations are the word of God, then that which is made of the credit of the authority and learning of men, then must all our comfort of believing be grounded upon this mans, and this mans Grammar and skill, in Hebrew, Greek, Latin, English, a•d he is not infallible in any of these. And must our lively hope be bottomed on mens credit and learning? then for any thing we know on the contrary, we have but dreams, opinions, and at best, mans word, for the word of God, and how is the word of Prophecy a more sure word; for these were written and translated prophesies, of which Peter speaketh; Mr. Goodwin and Libertines, who put heaven and Christ, and the lively hope of our inheritance, to the conjectures of doubting Sceptics could well reply to Peter, the word of prophecy cannot be sure;
4. Weak, dry, and saplesse should be our faith, all our patience and consolations of the Scriptures, Rom. 15. 4. all our hope on the word of God, Ps. 119 49, 50, 52, 54, 55. all our certainty of faith, if it were so as Mr. Goodwin averreth. But we have 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 a more sure word of Prophesie, surer then that which was heard on the Mount for our direction, and the establishing of our faith,