commentary

Truths Victory over Error

1684 · 33 entries

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By

David Dickson

Dates

first published 1684

Tradition

reformed, presbyterian

Also called

Truth’s Victory over Error

Follows

Truths Victory over Error. Or, An Abridgement of the Chief Controversies in Religion, which since the Apostles days to this time, have been, and are in agitation, between those of the Orthodox Faith, and all Adversaries whatsoever, John Reid’s printing, Edinburgh, 1684 (Edinburgh); Wing D1412, ESTC R3405 · the scan (PDF) , from archive.org

Transcribed

From EEBO-TCP A35959Checked against a copy at archive.org: every heading, the questions and the chapters they are on, every chapter’s first and last page, fifteen pages drawn at random, and the front matter’s first and last pages, word by word; every reference the reader couldn’t read, or read out of the Bible or out of order, by Claude, for cco3, 2026-10-29

License

Public domain

Notes

David Dickson (c. 1583–1663), professor of divinity at Glasgow and Edinburgh, lectured in Latin on the Westminster Confession (Praelectiones in Confessionem Fidei); George Sinclair (d. 1696), who signs its dedication to the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, published them in English in 1684, after his death: the earliest commentary on the Confession. It goes through the Confession’s thirty-three chapters, asks of each its truths (“Is…? Yes”), then the errors they refute (“Well then, do not the Socinians err…? Yes”), and confutes them with numbered reasons. Each entry is a chapter, on all of wcf1646’s paragraphs in it, titled by its heading as printed; each of Dickson’s questions is an item, its answer and references the segments, and the questions after it in turn (the errors, “By what reasons are they confuted?” and the reasons) items under it. The labels “Question I.”, “Quest. II.” are left out (the printing numbers two questions of chapter 23 “VI.”). A reference is a segment’s proofs; one given only as a chapter, its book named in the sentence (“as the Prophet Daniel hath foretold; chap. 9. 24, 26.”), and the Apocrypha’s, stay in the text. The epistles, the commendatory verses and the list of heretics are prose/; the title page is left out. Imported from EEBO-TCP A35959 by scripts/import-tcp.mjs (--kind commentary --on wcf1646 --italic-j), keeping its spelling and its marks for what it couldn’t read (•, 〈◊〉, ▪, and 〈 in non-Latin alphabet 〉 for Greek), but where the scan was read. EMENDATIONS.md gives the conventions (the TCP sets I for the printing’s italic J, here J) and every correction. The scan is EEBO’s film of the copy the TCP transcribed, page for page (with pp. 2–3 and 290–291 filmed twice).

On

Westminster Confession of Faith (1646)

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