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A second Corruption of the understanding is Error. Ignorance is in the first act of the understanding, which they call simple and bare apprehension; but Error is in the second Act, which they call Judgement. So that to err, is to mis-judge in matters of Religion; as those that denied the Resurrection are said to err, because they did not know the Scriptures, Mat. 22.29. Indeed sometimes the wicked ways of a mans life are called errors: They have always erred in their hearts, saith the Scripture of the Israelites, in reference to their ungodly actions, Heb. 3.10. because every sin is [Greek or Hebrew], an error or missing of the mark; so that in this sense, we may say thy ungodly actions are errors. Thou dost well to complain of errors in doctrine; but why dost thou not complain of thy errors in thy life, Omnis peccans est ignorans, every sinner as so is ignorant and erroneous: but we speak not of this, but of those errors in judgement, whereby it judgeth false things true, or true false: And there is no man in the world, but he hath some error in his mind. As there is not in any constitution, Temperamentum ad pondus, an exact temperament: So neither in any mans understanding, an exact and right judging of all things in matters of Religion. We know in pa•t, saith the Apostle, 1 Cor 13. Yea, we are ignorant of far more things than we know.

A second Corruption of the understanding is Errour. Ignorance is in the first act of the understanding, which they call simple and bare apprehension; but Error is in the second Act, which they call Judgement. So that to erre, is to mis-judge in matters of Religion; as those that denied the Resurrection are said to erre, because they did not know the Scriptures, Mat. 22.29. Indeed sometimes the wicked wayes of a mans life are called errours: They have alwayes erred in their hearts, saith the Scripture of the Israelites, in reference to their ungodly actions, Heb. 3.10. because every sinne is 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, an errour or missing of the mark; so that in this sence, we may say thy ungodly actions are errours. Thou dost well to complain of errours in doctrine; but why dost thou not complain of thy errours in thy life, Omnis peccans est ignorans, every sinner as so is ignorant and erroneous: but we speak not of this, but of those errours in judgement, whereby it judgeth false things true, or true false: And there is no man in the world, but he hath some errour in his mind. As there is not in any constitution, Temperamentum ad pondus, an exact temperament: So neither in any mans understanding, an exact and right judging of all things in matters of Religion. We know in pat, saith the Apostle, 1 Cor 13. Yea, we are ignorant of farre more things than we know.