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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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5. Libertines aim at this, The truth is monopolized to no one man, nor certain kind of men, ministers or others. What then? Ergo, It is truth what every man in his conscience believeth to be truth, and he that believeth & practiseth what in conscience he believeth to be truth, he believeth and practiseth according to the word of God, and is not to be controlled nor contradicted, nor compelled by sword or censures, for let it be most false in it self, yet it is to him Truth, and if you persecute him, he suffereth for the truth, for the Gospel, for righteousness sake, and the Ministers have no more to do to labour to recall and gain him from his opinions to the Truth,1 then he hath to labour to gain Ministers from their opinion.2
5. Libertines aim at this, The truth is monopolized to no one man, nor certain kind of men, ministers or others. What then? Ergo, It is truth what every man in his conscience beleeveth to be truth, and he that beleeveth & practiseth what in conscience he beleeveth to be truth, he beleeveth and practiseth according to the word of God, and is not to be controlled nor contradicted, nor compelled by sword or censures, for let it be most false in it self, yet it is to him Truth, and if you persecute him, he suffereth for the truth, for the Gospel, for righteousnes sake, and the Ministers have no more to doe to labour to recall and gain him from his opinions to the Truth,1 then he hath to labour to gain Ministers from their opinion.2
- 1Argum 19.
- 2Liberty of conscience maketh every mans conscience his Bible and multiplies Bibles and sundry words of God, and rules of faith.Libertie of conscience maketh every mans conscience his Bible and multiplies Bibles and sundry words of God, and rules of faith.