X479). F >.3ô. Real. 28. I-lath not God pnrpofely already in the Scripture determined the Controverfie fuppofing your Cere- monies ( which] is their bets ) to be indifferent. He bath in- terpofd alfo for the decifion of fuchdoubts. He hath corn- tt;anded,Ram.14. ì,.3, that we [Receivehim that isweakinthe faith, bolt not to daubtfull difputations ] (much leis to imprifon- ment or baniflimenr) [ Let not him'that eateth,,defpife him that eateth not ; and let not him that eateth not, judgehim that eateth for Godbath received him] Nay we mull not fo'much as of- fend or grieve our brother by indifferent things, 1/erf 1 3. 15. 2,1. to the end. And fo Chap. i 5.1.We that are flreng ought to bear the infirmities of the weal¿,, andnot topleafe our. %elves.] So that the cafe is decidedby the Spirit of God exprelly that he would haveweak Chrillians have liberty in loch thìngD as there ; and wouldïio: have Chrillians fo much as cenfure or defpife one another upon limb accounts. A'nd therefore Pre- lates may not filence Miniflers, nor excominunìcate(hriffiats on this account ; nor Magillrates punifh them, efpecially to the injury of the (hutch. 5. 31. Ohje&. RArt this is fpolgn only to private Chrifianr, and not to Mágiffrates or Prelates. Anfw. i. If there had been any Prelate Shen at:Rome, we might have judged' it fpoken to them with the people. And no doubt but it was fpoken to loch Pallors as they then had. For it was written to all the Church, of whom the Parlors were a part. And if the Pallòrs mull bear with diffenters in things indifferent, then moll certain- the Magiflrates mull do fo. 2. If Magiftrates are Chrillians, then this cotnmand exteneeth alto unto them. God bath fuffi- ciently told us here that he would have us bear with one ano- ther in things of filch indifferency as there. If God tell private men this truth, that he would havemen born within fuch cafes, it concerns the Magiftrate to take notice of it. Either the er- ror istolerable,or intolerable. If intolerable, private men niul not bear with ir. Iftolerable,Magiflrates. and Parlors mull bear with it. It is as much the duty. of Private Chrillians to reprove an erroneous perfon, and avoid him,: if intolerableand impeni- tent, as it is the dory of a Nilagiitrare to punifh him by the (word, or the Pallor by Church.cenfures. if therefore it be the duty of Private awl. to tolerate fuch et. there in ouelbçn,..
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