A92140:846
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.
6.1 If God will have us to try and examine all Spirits, all Doctrines,2 by the Scriptures written, then are we certainly assured,3 that the books we now have, of the Old and New Testament,4 are the very word of God, though we cannot,5 by any possibility, have the first and original authentic copies of Moses and the Prophets and Apostles;6 Because 1.7 God would not bid us try, and then leave us no rule to try withal,8 but our own natural light, which must lead us into darkness.9 2. The visible Church should not be guilty of unbelief,10 if the written word were not among us,11 or then Christ and his Apostles speaking to us, as is clear,12 Joh. 15. 22. Rom. 10. 14, 15. Matth. 11. 21, 22. The assumption is clear by the commended practise of the Bereans, 13