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The arraignment of errorThe arraignment of errour
The arraignment of error: or, A discourse serving as a curb to restrain the wantonness of mens spirits in the entertainment of opinions; and as a compass, whereby we may sail in the search and finding of truth; distributed into six main questions. Quest. 1. How it may stand with Gods, with Satan's, with a mans own ends, that there should be erroneous opinions? Quest. 2. What are the grounds of abounding errors? Quest. 3. Why so many are carried away with error? Quest. 4. Who those are that are in danger? Quest. 5. What are the examens, or the trials of opinions, and characters of truth? Quest. 6. What ways God hath left in his Word for the suppressing of error, and reducing of erroneous persons? Under which general questions, many other necessary and profitable queries are comprised, discussed, and resolved. And in conclusion of all; some motives, and means, conducing to an happy accommodation of our present differences, are subjoined. / By Samuel Bolton minister of the Word of God at Saviours-Southwark.The arraignment of errour: or, A discourse serving as a curb to restrain the wantonnesse of mens spirits in the entertainment of opinions; and as a compasse, whereby we may sail in the search and finding of truth; distributed into six main questions. Quest. 1. How it may stand with Gods, with Satans, with a mans own ends, that there should be erroneous opinions? Quest. 2. What are the grounds of abounding errours? Quest. 3. Why so many are carried away with errour? Quest. 4. Who those are that are in danger? Quest. 5. What are the examens, or the trials of opinions, and characters of truth? Quest. 6. What waies God hath left in his Word for the suppressing of errour, and reducing of erroneous persons? Under which generall questions, many other necessary and profitable queries are comprized, discussed, and resolved. And in conclusion of all; some motives, and means, conducing to an happy accommodation of our present differences, are subjoyned. / By Samuel Bolton minister of the Word of God at Saviours-Southwark.
London: printed by G. Miller for Andrew Kembe, 1646
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Let your practice come up to your light, let your walking be as large as your knowing. And when God sees us faithful in a little, then will he reveal more to us; when he sees you walk up to the light which he hath made known, then will he reveal his whole mind to you.
Let your practice come up to your light, let your walking be as large as your knowing. And when God sees us faithfull in a little, then will he reveale more to us; when he sees you walke up to the light which he hath made known, then will he reveale his whole minde to you.
David was a man that God would reveal his will unto, and he was a man ready to do all the will of God, Act. 14. And you have a plain Scripture for this, Phil. 3.15. Let us therefore as many as be perfect, that is, upright, be thus minded, and if in any thing you be otherwise minded, God shall reveal even this unto you: nevertheless, whereto we have attained, let us walk by the same rule, let us mind the same thing. And so much shall serve for the fifth great Query: I have stood long upon it, because it is of such main concernment, I have yet another which is of great moment also, and I have then done with this discourse.
David was a man that God would reveale his will unto, and he was a man ready to doe all the will of God, Act. 14. And you have a plaine Scripture for this, Phil. 3.15. Let us therefore as many as be perfect, that is, upright, be thus minded, and if in any thing you be otherwise minded, God shall reveale even this unto you: neverthelesse, whereto we have attained, let us walke by the same rule, let us minde the same thing. And so much shall serve for the fifth great Quaery: I have stood long upon it, because it is of such main concernment, I have yet another which is of great moment also, and I have then done with this discourse.