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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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It is the office of a Synod, an Assembly, to search, to debate, to determine and declare, what they conceive is the mind of Christ in this; and it is yours, to prove, to examine, to judge of their results and determinations. In which work, as I hope they will be tender; so I desire you may be humble, neither to embrace things with a blind judgement, nor to reject them with a perverse will.
It is the office of a Synod, an Assembly, to search, to debate, to determine and declare, what they conceive is the minde of Christ in this; and it is yours, to prove, to examine, to judge of their results and determinations. In which work, as I hope they will be tender; so I desire you may be humble, neither to imbrace things with a blinde judgement, nor to reject them with a perverse will.
And for Circumstantials: If the Question be asked, who is to judge of them. I suppose it is granted on all hands, that in those things, God hath left us free, and hath not determined and restrained us to any thing. And where God hath left things indeterminate, there is no Question but the Magistrate may determine you, and you are to submit to those determinations. And this shall suffice for this, and for the answer to the Question.
Thus you see we have finished three of those Queries we propounded. We come now to the fourth, viz.