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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. God puts us on hereby to si•• our conditions, whether we are in such a condition as may fence us from seduction, as may comfortably evidence to us, and we may build upon it, that we shall not be led away. Indeed we cannot be in such a condition here, but we may be led aside with some errors, we are not perfect in grace, nor are we perfect in knowledge here; the Apostle tells us, we know but in part, but we may be, and Gods people are in such a condition, that they shall never be led away with destroying errors, God will preserve them from them; he hath promised, that his elect shall not be deceived, that is in destroying undoing errors, this they shall not be, Joh. 10.4.5. they shall not hear the voice of a stranger. And this now puts us upon the search, whether we are in such a condition as thereby we may be persuaded we shall be fenced from undoing errors, that such errors shall never prevail over us.
1. God puts us on hereby to si•• our conditions, whether we are in such a condition as may fence us from seduction, as may comfortably evidence to us, and we may build upon it, that we shall not be led away. Indeed we cannot be in such a condition here, but we may be led aside with some errours, we are not perfect in grace, nor are we perfect in knowledge here; the Apostle tells us, we know but in part, but we may be, and Gods people are in such a condition, that they shall never be led away with destroying errours, God will preserve them from them; he hath promised, that his elect shall not be deceived, that is in destroying undoing errours, this they shall not be, Joh. 10.4.5. they shall not heare the voice of a stranger. And this now puts us upon the search, whether we are in such a condition as thereby we may be perswaded we shall be fenced from undoing errours, that such errours shall never prevaile over us.
Now there are 6. Conditions to which God hath promised direction in truth, and preservation from undoing errors; and the soul is put on to search whether he be in those conditions.