A92140:962
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
Chapter 28: Divers other Arguments for pretended Toleration, answered.
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Answ. That there should be prayers, preaching, reading. praising of God, Sacraments in the public worship, is evident by the Scripture, but for the ordering of these worships secundum prius & posterius the words of prayer (so they be according to the pattern of sound doctrine) the Preface of the Directory is clear, that no man is therein to be compelled, though to transgress the Holy Ghosts express order in the celebration of the Lords Supper, and to break bread and eat first, and that before any of the words of Institution be mentioned, or any blessing of the Elements, must be a manifest breach of the Directory of Jesus Christ which sure holdeth forth to us a twofold ordering of acts of worship, one divine, which we must peremptorily follow, another prudential and humane in circumstances which concern both the worship of ⟨p. 406⟩God and civill Assemblies, as time, place, persons, &c. and in the latter we are no further to be commanded in point of uniformity then the general rules of the word lead us; and compulsion, where God hath no compelling commandment going before in an exact uniformity, we utterly disclaim, nor can men, or Church, or all the Assemblies on earth make laws in matters of Gods worship, where the Supreme Lawgiver hath made none, and the Preface of the Directory is so clear in this, that we trust we shall quickly agree with the godly and sound in judgement in this.
Answ. That there should be prayers, preaching, reading. praising of God, S•craments in the publike worship, is evident by the Scripture, but for the ordering of these worships secundum prius & posterius the words of prayer (so they bee according to the pattern of sound doctrine) the Preface of the Directorie is clear, that no man is therein to be compelled, though to transgresse the Holy Ghosts expresse order in the celebration of the Lords Supper, and to break bread and eate first, and that before any of the words of Institution bee mentioned, or any blessing of the Elements, must be a manifest breach of the Directory of Jesus Christ which sure holdeth forth to us a twofold ordering of acts of worship, one divine, which we must p•remptorily follow, another prudential and humane in circumstances which concern both the worship of ⟨p. 406⟩God and civill Assemblies, as time, place, persons, &c. and in the latter we are no further to be commanded in point of uniformitie then the generall rules of the word lead us; and compulsion, where God hath no compelling commandment going before in an exact uniformitie, we utterly disclaim, nor can men, or Church, or all the Assemblies on earth make laws in matters of Gods worship, where the Supream Lawgiver hath made none, and the Preface of the Directorie is so clear in this, that we trust we shall quickly agree with the godly and sound in judgement in this.