A92140:854
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.
Answ. 1I have read of no faultless causes of error, nor of any invincible error in things that we are to believe and know by virtue of a divine Commandment; for this is a special false principle, that to know God, as he hath revealed himself in his word, is not commanded of God in his word. 1 Because to this David exhorteth Solomon, And shall Solomon my son know the Lord, 1 Chron. 28. 9. and when the Apostle bids as be renewed in the spirits of our mind, Ephes. 4. 23. Rom. 12. 2. 2 And growing in knowledge is recommended, 2 Pet. 3. 14. 1 Cor. 1. 5. Prov. 4. 1. 5 And is set down as a blessing, Esa. 11. 9. Exod. 18. 10. Prov. 1. 2. Hos. 13. 4. Its sure to know God, and his revealed will in his word must oblige us. 4 The end of the revealed will is to know God, Deut. 4. 3. 5. Prov. 22. 21.
Answ. 1I have read of no faultlesse causes of errour, nor of any invincible errour in things that we are to beleeve and know by vertue of a divine Commandement; for this is a speciall false principle, that to know God, as he hath revealed himselfe in his word, is not commanded of God in his word. 1 Because to this David exhorteth Solomn, And shall Solomn my son know the Lord,