A92140:867
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.
2. Building hay and stubble, that is, vain and fruitless opinions upon the foundation, is privatively opposed to building of gold, silver, and precious stones, vers. 12. but that is a work of faith, and such a work as shall abide, and have a reward, v. 14.
3. The work that shall be brought to judgement, and made manifest so, as it shall be burnt with fire, and shall be judged to be a fruitless work, must be sin. But the building of […] and stubble upon the […] Christ is such a work, v. 13, 14, 15. And that the man himself shall be saved, because that by faith he is builded upon the foundation Christ, but the work burnt with fire, will no more prove that the building of hay is not sin, then that Peters j•daizing, and Davids adultery and murder were not fins, because Peter and David are saved, for the Apostle there compares the Apostles to builders, (as before he compared them to […], v. 6, 7, 8 9.) and the preaching of doctrine to a building, and he makes Christ the foundation of the building, and two sorts of super-structures; good doctrine, and that is gold and silver, and vain and unedifying Toys added to the doctrine of Christ, […] hay and stubble; Now he makes the judgement that trieth all doctrine to be fire, (whether it be the last judgement, or fiery afflictions, it is no great matter) our good doctrine will bide the trial of the fire and not be consumed, and the man rewarded for his so building, and bad doctrine will be burns, and not abide the Lords fire when it is tried, for false doctrine will vanish in the day of trial, and yield the sower of such doctrine no comfort, yet he himself keeping the foundation Christ shall be saved, but he shall be •eded and […] afflicted for his fruitless building, so the day seems to be the day of trial and fiery persecution coming on all the Preachers of the Gospel, to try the• and their doctrine, as Rev. 3. 10. the place smells nothing of p••gato•ie fire, and the most judicious interpreters, even Esins […] Papist, pounds i well of the Lords trying of the sons of Levi,