A92140:89
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. A good conscience from justification hath peace and joy. Prov. 15. 5. A good conscience; or Heb. he that is good in heart is in a continual feast. Its an allusion to the Show-bread that was set before God always; or as Exod. 2•. 30. bread of faces, that was to be before the Lord continually; called by them, [Greek or Hebrew] perpetual bread; this hath no fountain cause, but sense of reconciliation with God.
2. A good conscience from justification hath peace and joy. Prov. 15. 5. A good conscience; or Heb. he that is good in heart is in a continuall feast. Its an allusion to the Shew-bread that was set before God alwaies; or as Exod. 2•. 30. bread of faces, that was to be before the Lord continually; called by them, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉 perpetuall bread; this hath no fountaine cause, but sense of reconcilliation with God.
3. A good Conscience is a complete entire thing, as our Text saith, both toward God and man; its not to be a moral man in the duties of the second Table, and a sceptic in the duties of the first Table, not in some few fundamentals, as Patrons for Liberty of Conscience do plead, but in the whole revealed will of God; and therefore the good conscience consisteth in an indivisible point, as they say, the number of four doth, if you add one, or take one from it, you vary the essence, and make it three or five, not four; so Paul taketh in completeness in it, I have all good Conscience, either all or none; and a good Conscience toward God and man; not a conscience for the streets and the Church, and not for the house, and not for the days Hosanna, and not for eternity; therefore they require an habit to a good Conscience, [Greek or Hebrew], I have exercised my self to have always a good conscience, there is a difference between one song, and the habit of Music, and a step and a way,