Chap. 6. An Expofition upon theBookof J O B. Verf.24, -33 confcience,nor as yet,had they brought any light to convince his confc.ience;he had been charged with errours, extravagancies and wanderings ; But he undertieod not what they were, and there- fore defies them to caute him to underfiand his errour. Obferve hence, hrfi, - Man is fubjeîi to errour. To errour in fpeech, to errour in pra- ¿rife, toerrour in judgement. Man by nature, can do nothing elfe but erre, all bit goings are goings affray, and all his know - ledg is bottomed upon a heap offalfe principles. All his works(by nature)are errataes, and the whole editionofhis life,a continuedmi- flake. Secondly obferve ; That man is in a fair way to truth, who acknowledgetb he may erre. Caufe me to underhand wherein 1 bave erred, faith fob; He thought he had not erred, but he grants it was potlible tòr him to erre. That which hath fanned fo many errours to the Popes chair, and from thence fcattered them over all the world, is an opinion, that he, in his chair cannot crre;his fuppofed fpirit of infallibility, hath made him thegreater Deceiver, and deceived. him. Be that thinks he cannot erre, errs in thinking fo, and fel- dome thinks, or fpeaks,or doth any thing, but it is an errour. He . is moll fecured from errour,who fufpeas he hath erred,and hum- bly acknowledges that he may. Thirdly, We may hereobferve what an errour is. An errour firicly andproperly.taken, is that which we boldor doe, out of bare ignoranceof the Truth. It is an errour in pratice, when we are ignorant ofwhat is better to be done. An crrour in opinion is, when we are ignorant of what is better for us to believe or hold ;, Heretic is an errour and more, for heretic hash three things in -it. 1. In regard of thematter,it muti be inCome great and funda- mentaltruths.The word Herefie,is by force derived fromchoofïng; by others, from taking away,becaufe it takes us offfromChrift, or from the foundations ofCavingknowledge. 2. Herefie is accompanied with pertinacy and ob(tínaçy, after clear light offered. It is poflible, one may have an errour about things whichare fundamental, and yet beno heretick An be retickia condemnedofhimfelf, Tit. 3. Eo. But he will not be con- vinced by another. Not that he doth formally and in termes give :fenttnceagainft, or condemn himfelf, but equivalently he doth, as thle Apotlle, 4Is. 13 46. fpeaks to the unbeleeving Yews,fee,, gig,
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