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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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Object. 3. But it will perhaps be said by some, That all this is not Excommunication, this is but the half of it, the negative part of it, and not the positive part of it, which indeed is that wherein the proper nature of Excommunication doth lie, viz. a delivering up to Satan.
Object. 3. But it will perhaps be said by some, That all this is not Excommunication, this is but the half of it, the negative part of it, and not the positive part of it, which indeed is that wherein the proper nature of Excommunication doth lie, viz. a d•livering up to Satan.
Answ. And here we are now come up to the highest step of the controversy: This is the — the very point of the difference.
Answ. And here we are now come up to the highest step of the controversie: This is the — the very point of the difference.
1. For the first part of the Objection, That this is not Excommunication, because it wants the positive part. To me it seems evident, that which is granted by Ames in the fifth opinion, and which our Brethren grant in the sentence of non-communion; hath something positive, as well as negative in it: Yea, but you will say, here is not the delivering up to Satan, ⟨p. 305⟩and in that consists the formality of this sentence of Excommunication.