This audio file contains the first part of Chapter 27.
Chapter 27. Whether our darkness and incapacity to believe and profess, together with the darkness and obscurity of scripture be a sufficient ground for toleration.
Our inability to believe is no plea for toleration.
Preaching of the word without the Spirit as unable to work faith, as the sword.
Heresies are knowable.
Forced conscience as strong an argument against Deuteronomy 13 as against us.
The magistrate commandeth the outward man, and yet commandeth not carnal repentance and hypocritical turning to God.
Because we may abstain from heresy on false grounds, it follows not that the magistrate hath not power to punish heresy.
Libertinism of toleration is grounded upon the pretended obscurity of scripture.
Toleration putteth a hundred senses upon the Scripture, and makes many rules of faith.
John Goodwin denieth that we have scriptures or any ground of faith, but that which is made of men's credit and learning.
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