On the errors of holy men (Samuel Rutherford)

[Reformed Covenanter]

It is a great evil under the Sun, and the sickness of man’s vanity, that the name of holy men should be a web to make garments of for new opinions, but the errors of holy men have no whiteness, nor holiness from men. And it is a wrong that men’s praise should be truths prejudice, and men’s gain, truths loss.

Samuel Rutherford, The due right of presbyteries, or, A peaceable plea for the government of the Church of Scotland (London: Richard Whittaker and Andrew Crook, 1644), to the reader.

 

[Reformed Covenanter]

On the same theme:

Weakness is not wickedness, a roving of wit must not be deemed a Rebellion of will, a broken engine may part with a dead child, and yet be a Mother of many healthy children.

Samuel Rutherford, The due right of presbyteries, or, A peaceable plea for the government of the Church of Scotland (London: Richard Whittaker and Andrew Crook, 1644), to the reader.