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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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2. By the Law of God, Levit. 19.18.1
3. By the Law of brotherly charity, Colos. 3.15. 1 Thess. 5.14. Heb. 3.13. Heb. 10.24.1 But this is only as a gifted and enlightened brother: every Pastor hath power also to counsel, and it is his duty to do it, but he doth this by the key of knowledge, the power of order, not the power of jurisdiction. And ⟨p. 292⟩though our Brethren do not allow the power of jurisdiction in a Synod, yet some of them grant an authoritative power, not only differing from the former gradually, as a greater power to advise differs from a lesser, but specifically, and in nature different from the other; indeed their brethren grant not so much in this kind; they say, the power of a Synod differs from the power of Congregations only gradually and extensively, not essentially and specifically. And could that specific difference of power be fully made out; certainly it would be a good medium to our reconciliation in this point of difference.