A92140:877
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.
Object. 1If no simple error condemn us before the throne of God, since God is so pitiful to our crimes, that he pardons many de toto, & de integro, he will far less demand an account of our weakness; the strongest understanding cannot pretend immunity from being deceived.
Object. 1If no simple errour condemne us before the throne of God, since God is so pitifull to our crimes, that he pardons many de toto, & de integro, he will far lesse demand an account of our weaknesse; the strongest understanding cannot pretend immunity from being deceived.
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Answ. 1Then though Christ said, Joh. 8. Except ye believe, that I am b•, ye shall dye in your sins, and he that believeth not is condemned already: He chargeth no man guilty of unbelief, that heareth the Gospel for simple not believing But then we are commanded to believe no truth that God speaketh, to know no truth, but only to know it with an inclination of heart, love, and will, toward the Commander, and so the mind, and understanding faculty, the noblest, and most excellent piece in the soul must be left lawless and ⟨p. 379⟩free in its operations, from all hazard of guilt or sin.
Answ. 1Then though Christ said,