488 ) §. 12. Real: 9. By. this means alfo the ccinverlon and eftablifhment of fouls will be much kindred, and peoplepo4- felled with prejudice againil the Church and ordinances, when they takeus to be but humerous people, and fee us in fuch con- tentions amongour felves. To my knowledge, our late dif- ferenceabout fome fuch Idler things, bath turned off, or hinder- ed abundance of people from liking the holy dot`trineand life which we profefs. §. ,13. Reát i o. It will feem to the wifefc, to favour of no fmall meafure of Pride, when people on the account of lawfull circumftances, dare let themfelves againft their Govenors and Teachers, and quarrel with the ordinances of God, and with the Churches : Humble men would boner fufpeel them- (elves, and quarrel with their own diflempers, and fubnritto thofe that are wifer then themfelves, andthat are fet over them for their guidance by the Lord. There may more dangerous Pridebe manifeiled in thefe matters, then in Apparel, and Inch lower trifles: §. 14. Real i r. Confider alfo what yielding in things lawful! the Scripture recommendeth to us,? How far yield- ed Paul when he circumcifed Timothy ? A&. 16. 3. And when he [took the men , and purified himfelf with them in the Temple , to lignifie the accomplifñnsent of the daies of purification , *still that an offering fhould be offered for every one of them ] and this for almoft (even dayes, e.94tls 2I. 26, 27. with the foregoing yerfes. §. 15. So i Cor. 9. 19, 20. [For though I be free from all men , yet bave I made my felf fervant unto all, that I might gain the more : And unto the Pews I became as a yew, that I might gain the Pews to them bat are under the ,haw, as under the Law , that I might gain : them that are under the Law : Ti them that are without Law, as without Lein ( being not without Law to God , but under the Law to .Cbriff) that 1 might gain them that are .with: out Law. To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak: 1 am made all things to all men, that I might, byall meanifave force, and this Idofor the Gofpels fake, (Ow.] Study this example.
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