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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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It is a passage of the learned Professor of Scotland, We do not say that power of jurisdiction is in a Provincial or National Synod, as in the Churches, who have power to excommunicate; and he gives two reasons.
It is a passage of the learned Professour of Scotland, We doe not say that power of jurisdiction is in a Provinciall or Nationall Synod, as in the Churches, who have power to excommunicate; and he gives two reasons.
1. Because this power of jurisdiction in Synods is cumulative, not privative. The second is yet fuller.
2. Because it is in a Synod, rather according to commanded, 1then elicit acts, For, saith he, the Synod by an ecclesiastical power, added to that intrinsical power of jurisdiction in Churches, doth command the Churches to use the power of jurisdiction, rather then to use it actually her self.
2. Because it is in a Synod, rather according to commanded, 1then elicite acts, For, saith he, the Synod by an ecclesiasticall power, added to that intrinsecall power of jurisdiction in Churches, doth command the Churches to use the power of jurisdiction, rather then to use it actually her self.
- 1Qu•a• actus imperatos potiu qum actu licito