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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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But now another he is nothing troubled at all, he is drunk, and is at peace and quiet, we hear of no roarings; and what's the reason? why because he hath sinned away the common light, he hath sinned away conscience, he hath no light to direct nor any to afflict him, and if you will not own light to direct, in time you shall have no light to afflict. Sin is an eating thing, it will eat out all good dispositions, good affections, good inclinations, moral principles, it will eat out the very stock of nature, a man may even sin away his common principles. Sin will never leave, till it have eaten out all, and made all sin, you see the very fences of nature were broken down, the very principles of nature were sinned away in Rom. 1.26.
But now another he is nothing troubled at all, he is drunke, and is at peace and quiet, we heare of no roarings; and what's the reason? why because he hath sinn'd away the common light, he hath sinn'd away conscience, he hath no light to direct nor any to afflict him, and if you will not owne light to direct, in time you shall have no light to afflict. Sinne is an eating thing, it will eate out all good dispositions, good affections, good inclinations, morall principles, it will eate out the very stock of nature, a man may even sinne away his common principles. Sinne will never leave, till it have eaten out all, and made all sinne, you see the very fences of nature were broken down, the very principles of nature were sinn'd away in Rom. 1.26.
5. A fifth end that Satan hath in multitude of errors, is to bring mens minds into a dislike of the things of God, to set their spirits at a farther distance against Religion and the ways of God. You see now it is the fruit of the many errors on foot, it sets mens hearts at further distance against the truths of God.
5. A fifth end that Satan hath in multitude of errours, is to bring mens minds into a dislike of the things of God, to set their spirits at a farther distance against Religion and the wayes of God. You see now it is the fruit of the many errours on foote, it sets mens hearts at further distance against the truths of God.