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Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part…
Church-history of the government of bishops and their councils abbreviated including the chief part of the government of Christian princes and popes, and a true account of the most troubling controversies and heresies till the Reformation ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed by B. Griffin for Thomas Simmons, 1680
Church-History OF BISHOPS And their COUNCILS ABRIDGED, &c. › Chapter 2
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§. 3. Of those errors that are sins; it is not all that are effectively mortal or damning sins: Else no man could be saved. There is no man that hath not a multitude of errors, that hath any actual use of reason.
§. 3. Of those errours that are sins; it is not all that are effectively mortal or damning sins: Else no man could be saved. There is no man that hath not a multitude of errours, that hath any actual use of reason.
§. 4. Errors are of three sorts. 1. Errors of Judgment (to say nothing ⟨p. 29⟩of sense and imagination.) 2. Of Will; 3. Of Life, or practice. The Judgment is to Guide the Will; and the Will is to command our practice. Therefore those errors are least dangerous that least corrupt the Will and practice, and those most dangerous that most corrupt them. But every error contrary to any useful truth is bad, as it is a corruption of the judgment, tending to corrupt the will and practice.
§. 4. Errours are of three sorts. 1. Errours of Iudgment (to say nothing ⟨p. 29⟩of sense and imagination.) 2. Of Will; 3. Of Life, or practice. The Iudgment is to Guide the Will; and the Will is to command our practice. Therefore those errours are least dangerous that least corrupt the Will and practice, and those most dangerous that most corrupt them. But every errour contrary to any useful truth is bad, as it is a corruption of the judgment, tending to corrupt the will and practice.
§. 5. 1. No error is effectively damning which turneth not the Heart or Will in a predominant degree from the Love of God to the Love of the Creature, from the Love of Heaven and Holiness to the prevalent Love of Earth, and sinful pleasure, riches or honour therein; from things Spiritual to things Carnal: For God hath prepared unconceivable glory for them that Love him: The Kingdom of God consisteth not in meats and drinks, but in righteousness, peace and joy in the holy Ghost: And he that in these things serveth Christ, doth please God, and is acceptable to (good) men,