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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. There is a connection between the mind and other faculties, or affections, a corrupt mind is often conjoined with a guilty conscience, and faith and a pure conscience go together, 1 Tim. 1. 19. 1 Tim. 1. •. 2 Pet. •. 4, 5. keep the one, and you shall the more easily keep the other, make ⟨p. 372⟩shipwreck of faith, and a good conscience cannot swim safe to Land, and the will, and rebellious affections, and lusts have influence upon the actual and habitual blinding of the mind, in that men walking after their lusts are quickly blinded in their mind, and the judgement depraved, 1. 2 Pet. 3. 5. they are willingly ignorant, and so refuse to know God. 2. Turn away their ear from the Law, refuse the means of the knowing of God, and dig not for wisdom, as for silver, hate knowledge, Prov. 1. 24. c. 2. 2, 3, 4, 5, 6. 3. Blind their own minds and shut their eyes, Esa. 6. 10. Matth. 13. 14, 15. Ezek. 12. 2. Deut. 29. 3, 4.
6. There is a connexion between the minde and other faculties, or affections, a corrupt minde is often conjoyned with a guilty conscience, and faith and a pure conscience go together, 1 Tim. 1. 19. 1 Tim. 1. •. 2 Pet. •. 4, 5. keep the one, and you shall the more easily keep the other, make