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The upright mans character and crown. Preached in a sermon at Pauls before the…
The upright mans character and crown. Preached in a sermon at Pauls before the right Honourable the Lord Major, and the aldermen of the City of London, March 29. 1657. / By Thomas Watson minister of Stephens Walbrook London.
London: printed for Ralph Smith, 1657
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IX. An upright Christian is right1 ⟨p. 27⟩in his judgement; he doth not lean to error; his head doth not turn round. Though there will be differences in lesser matters, things indifferent, and disputable, (& indeed where there are not such clear vestigia, and footings in Scripture, here there must be some grains of allowance) yet in the Fundamentals of Religion, the upright Christian keeps his standing.
IX. An upright Christian is right1 ⟨p. 27⟩in his judgement; he doth not lean to errour; his head doth not turne round. Though there will be differences in lesser matters, things indifferent, and disputable, (& indeed where there are not such cleare vestigia, and footings in Scripture, here there must be some graines of allowance) yet in the Fundamentals of Religion, the upright Christian keeps his standing.
- 1IX. Charact.
Error when it is not only circa, but contra fundamentum, is dangerous*; a man may as well go to hell by error, as by moral vice; gross sin stabs to the heart, error poisons; there is less hope of an erroneous person then a profane; the profane person sins, and doth not repent; the erroneous person sins, and holds it a sin to repent; the one is without tears, the other cries down tears. The upright Christian is not tainted with this leprosy in the head; he hath rectitude in his mind.
Error when it is not only circa, but contra fundamentum, is dangerous