A92140:864
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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3. It is to beg the Question, to say that any Error in the matters written to us in our Lords Testament, which so much concerneth both our knowledge and practise, can be simple Errors and have no confederation with personal iniquity, for it is as much as if not to read our Husbands love-letter from end to end, or to cause to read it, if it comes to the wives hard, were not our sin against our husband Christ, whereas to be ignorant of any thing in it, and mis-believe, it is sinful ignorance, and natural blindness, so the Doctor makes sin so innocent as to have no consideration with sin.
3. It is to beg the Question, to say that any Error in the matters written to us in our Lords Testament, which so much concerneth both our knowledge and practise, can be simple Errors and have no confederation with personall iniquity, for it is as much as if not to read our Husbands love-letter from end to end, or to cause to read it, if it comes to the wives hard, were not our sin against our husband Christ, whereas to be ignorant of any thing in it, and mis-beleeve, it is sinfull ignorance, and naturall blindness, so the Doctor makes sin so innocent as to have no consideration with sin.
4.1 To say the opinion shall burn though himself ••cape, is to expound the place 1 Cor. 3. 11, 12, 13, 14. most corruptly in a n•w gloss of the Doctors own, as if hay and stubb•• that is, vain and unprofitable opinions, that are builded upon the foundation Christ, were not sinful opinions in the matters of ⟨p. 375⟩God, when as they are hay and stubble to be b•ent.