A92140:871
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.
7. The opinion of Purgatory, though it were no heresy (as the Doctor saith, and bringeth no argument to prove it) yet is not simply, a sinless error in such as ⟨p. 377⟩know, or ought to know (since the Scripture is before their eyes) that 1. There is no word of God to warrant it. 2. Since the word, in the Parable of Lazarus, and the rich Glutton, showeth us, what abideth all men, immediately after they dye, that the bodies of all go to the earth, and one way or other are buried, and the souls either to heaven or hell, and this he saith of all mankind. 1. Because all receive either their good things, or their evil, of suffering in this life. 2. All men are such, as if they believe not Moses and the Prophets, will not believe though one rise from the dead. 3. Christ should be unperfect in this place, and in all other places, who should not tell us of a third doom, befalling some after they are dead and buried: where their bodies that were instruments of sin, as the rich gluttons tongue was of gluttony, should be tormented, for their venial sins; yea and Purgatory dwells door neighbour with covetousness, if the Doctor remembers that Soul-masses to Romish Mass-mongers, as well as Dirges, Requiems, M•sses, are not a little gainful.
7. The opinion of Purgatory, though it were no heresie (as the Doctor saith, and bringeth no argument to prove it) yet is not simply, a finlesse errour in such as ⟨p. 377⟩know, or ought to know (since the Scripture is before their eyes) that 1. There is no word of God to warrant it. 2. Since the word, in the Parable of Lazarus, and the rich Glutton, sheweth us, what abideth all men, immediately after they dye, that the bodies of all goe to the earth, and one way or other are buried, and the souls either to heaven or hell, and this he saith of all mankinde. 1. Because all receive either their good things, or their evill, of suffering in this life. 2. All men are such, as if they beleeve not Moses and the Prophets, will not beleeve though one rise from the dead. 3. Christ should be unperfect in this place, and in all other places, who should not tell us of a third doom, befalling some after they are dead and buried: where their bodies that were instruments of sin, as the rich gluttons tongue was of gluttony, should be tormented, for their veniall sinnes; yea and Purgatory dwells doorneighbour with covetousnesse, if the Doctor remembers that Soul-masses to Romish Masse-mongers, as well as Durges, Requiems, Msses, are not a little gainfull.