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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
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5. I will not say Amen to Dr. Taylor, that to count a man an heretic, his opinion must be a plain upon recession from demonstrative authority, which must needs be voluntary vincible, and criminal, 1for the Sadducees were wilful, obstinate heretics in denying the resurrection of the dead, a principal Article of faith; yet it is not clear that their opinion was an open recession from: demonstrative authority. The Doctor will not call Christs arguing: God is the God of dead Abraham. Ergo, the dead must live again, Matth. 22. demonstrative. We may have as much natural blindness, as we can hardly see the truth of Christs ascension to heaven, and coming again to judge the quick and dead, by demonstrative authority from Scripture, yet those in the visible Church, denying these Articles of faith, are Heretics, though there may be degrees of voluntariness and obstinacy in Heretics.
5. I will not say Amen to Dr. Taylor, that to count a man an heretick, his opinion must be a plaine upon recession from demonstrative authority, which must needs be voluntary vincible, and criminall, 1for the Sadduces were wilfull, obstinate hereticks in denying the resurrection of the dead, a principall Article of faith; yet it is not clear that their opinion was an open recession from: demonstrative authority. The Doctor will not call Christs arg•ing: God is the God of dead Abraham. Ergo, the dead must live againe, Matth. 22. demonstrative. We may have as much naturall blindnesse, as we can hardly see the truth of Christs ascention to heaven, and comming againe to judge the quicke and dead, by demonstrative authority from Scripture, yet those in the visible Church, denying these Articles of faith, are Hereticks, though there may be degrees of voluntarinesse and obstinacy in Hereticks.
- 1Dr. Tailors mistake of heresy.Dr. Taylors mistake of heresie.