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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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1. To the first of these. I say. 1. That though the things of this life be the object of the Magistrates power, yet are they not the sole and adequate object of it. Spiritual and heavenly things do fall in under the object of his power also, as well as temporal: He is called a nursing father to the Church: he is, Custos & vindex utriusque inbulae, 1the keeper and revenger of both tables of the Law, Deu. 17.18 Josh 1.8. Rom. 134. The affairs of Jehovah, and the matters of the King are not so different (saith Ames) as that the care and knowledge of the things of God, belongeth not to the King. But they are thus distinguished, that in the execution of them, the King performs his part in a political way; the officers of the Church, in an ecclesiastical way.
1. To the first of these. I say. 1. That though the things of this life be the object of the Magistrates power, yet are they not the sole and adequate object of it. Spirituall and heavenly things doe fall in under the object of his power also, as well as temporall: He is called a nursing father to the Church: he is, Custos & vindex utriusque inbulae, 1the keeper and revenger of both tables of the Law, Deu. 17.18 Josh 1.8. Rom. 134. The affairs of Jehovah, and the matters of the King are not so different (saith Ames) as that the care and knowledge of the things of God, belongeth not to the King. But they are thus distinguished, that in the execution of them, the King performs his part in a politicall way; the officers of the Church, in an ecclesiasticall way.
- 1Sed ita distinguuntur, ut in modo procura••i, rex politicè sua parts oget, & sacerdos ecclesiasticè suas Ame. de consc. l. c. 25 thes. S. Ames. Medul. Theol. l 2. c. 17. thes. 48, 49.Sed ita distinguuntur, ut in modo procura••i, rex politicè sua partes oget, & sacerdos ecclesiasticè suas Ame. de consc. l. c. 25 thes. S. Ames. Medul. Theol. l 2. c. 17. thes. 48, 49.