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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 to return, that is another ground of abounding errors, the corruption of the heart. A man may be carried away with an error, and yet not have a corrupt heart, but error must needs proceed from the corruption of the heart.1 I say he may be led away, and yet not have a corrupt heart; it may be he hath nothing but honest ends, and honest grounds in the entertainment of it: The Apostle tells us of such, Rom. 16.18. by good words and fair speeches, they deceive the hearts of the simple; the word signifies error of them not evil, but though the hearts do not argue a corrupt heart, yet it discovers corruption in the heart, and that's the second ground.
But to returne, that is another ground of abounding errours, the corruption of the heart. A man may be carried away with an errour, and yet not have a corrupt heart, but errour must needs proceed from the corruption of the heart.1 I say he may be led away, and yet not have a corrupt heart; it may be he hath nothing but honest ends, and honest grounds in the entertainment of it: The Apostle tels us of such, Rom. 16.18. by good words and faire speeches, they deceive the hearts of the simple; the word signifies errour of them not evill, but though the hearts doe not argue a corrupt heart, yet it discovers corruption in the heart, and thats the second ground.
- 1[Greek or Hebrew], Minimè malus, inn• cens. Decipiunt animos innocentum.〈non-Latin alphabet〉, Minimè malus, inn• cens. Decipiunt animos innocentum.