A92140:94
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.
The tender Conscience is only choicest of Consciences, so • Ames maketh it that which is opposed to an hard heart,1 the worst conscience that is;2 we have some choice examples of a tender conscience, 2 King. 22. 19. Because thy heart was tender, and thou wast cast down before the face of the Lord: the word [Greek or Hebrew] to grow soft is ascribed to oil, Psalm. 55. 22. His words were softer then oil; it is Prov. 4. 3. tender and dear; it is ascribed to young children, or young cattle, its a conscience that easily yieldeth and rendereth to God; So in Job chap. 31. who was so tender at the remembrance of Gods rising up against him to visit him, that vers. 13. he durst not despise the cause of his man-servant, or his maid-servant, when they contended with him, and in David, who when he but cut off the lap of the Mans garment, who sought to cut off his life, yet his heart smote him: the word [Greek or Hebrew] is to strike, or kill, or plague, frequent in the Book of E•codus, God shook every herb of the field. God struck or plagued the first borne; it is some times to whip or scourge, so as the mark of the stroke remaineth; after Davids striking of the Lords anointed, there remained an vibex, an impression and a mark in a soft heart.
The tender Conscience is onely choisest of Consciences, so • Ames maketh it that which is opposed to an hard heart,1 the worst conscience that is;2 we have some choise examples of a tender conscience, 2 King. 22. 19