C H A P.9. Of Wifedome,&c. 519 but a!1 things are not expedient. Allthings are lawfrell for me: brit all things doe not edifie.Let no minfeeke his owne things, het eatery one another mans. And againe, f Beewithout of- f Vert p, 33. fence, to 1 ewesAnd Gentiles, and to the dwell of God. E- men as 1 in all things pleafe all men , not feekir,, mine owne profit, but theprofit ofmnany ,that theymay befaaued,Rom.i4. 13, &c. Let vsnot therefore iudge one another ; but this ra- ther iudge , not to lay aHumbling Nock! before thy13rother, or an offence. Defiroy not him by thy rneate,for whomChrif dyed. Let not therefore your good (lo calling that libertie which Chtifl hath purchafcd for vs) bee mill gleken of. Let vs therefore followafter the things of peace , andofedi- fication one towards another. `.Ueflroy notfor meatesfare the woke of God. e4!1 things indeed are eleane ; but it is ill for theman that eateth with offence. 1t is good not to eats. fief!, nor to drink! wine , nor to doe any thing whereby thy Trotberfiumbleth, or is offended, or madeweak!. To fet dowse therefore the cautions that are to bee giuen herein, and how, and in what cafes wee are fo to bridle our Chriftian libertie. The firíl caution is , that it bee in things which God hath once retlrayned : for no Law of God , nor rule of Charitie bindeth to forbeare meates, or drinks, or other things which neuer were vnlawfull by the Commande- ment of God, but by thevaine fuperflitionof men: that being but to giue firength and countenance to the do- &rine ofDenils,with which name theApoflle brandeth them , 1. Tim. 4. T. Secondly, It mutt bee but to beare with our weake Brethren, and for awhile, t till theymay bee better in- t Aa` 5°A14* formed of the libertie they haue in Chrift ; it muff not bee tomourn or flrengthenmen in culli, nor when it tendeth not to edification but deflrutlion: So did u Paid u4li,tó.at circumcife Timothy, not as theSacrament that God had once ordayned,but as a bare Ceremonic and thing indif ferent, which hehad freepower to Itfc forthe edificati- on
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