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Obiettions taken
from
tef
imonies
of
Scriptttre,anfinera
7C7
ded
in his
confcience
by
fcandals
and
offences,
offered
by
thofe
who
are
more firorig, yet
he
can
neuer
fall
and
perifh,
feeing the
Lord ílrengtheneth
his
weakneffe,vpholdeth
him
being
readie to
fall, and
being
fallen
raifeth
him
vp
againe.
Notwithilanding it might
trulybe
faid in
refpe6 ofthe
fuf-
ficiencie
ofthe
occafion offered
by
the
offence
giuen
that
he
fhould thereby be deilroyed
and
perifh:
for hee
that giueth
fuch
offences,doth
as
much
as
in
him lieth,deflroy
his
weake
brother,
the
caufe
which
he
giueth
being
in
it
fclfe
of
force
fuffricient
to ouerthrow and
defiroy
him,
ifhe
were
not
fup-
ported
and preferued
by the omnipotent power
of
God.
Sc
that
the
fenfe
of
this
place
is
this, deflroy
not,
that
is,do
not
by gluing
fuch offences
as
much
as
in thee
lieth,
defiroy
thy
weake
brother,for
whom
Chrifl bath
died. And
fo,through
thy knowledge
fhall
thy
weake
brother
perifh,
that
is, by
a-
búfing thy
knowledge concerning the
vfe
of
things
indiffe-
rent,thou
fhalt
by
offending him
as
much
as
thou art
able
caufe
him
to
pe,rifh,becaufe
thou
offerefl
the occafion, and
vfeíl
the
meane to
bring
him
to
deflru&ion.
The twelfth
lace
obieaed
is
i.
Cot
%9.27.
Tut
Ibeate
Sea.
dovne
my
bode
and
brine
it
into
fubteEtion, left
by
any meaner
af- Y.Cor.4.
ter
I
haw
preached
to
others,
[my felflhould
become
a reprobate.
Vvhetber
From which
place
they thus reafon
:
`Paul
might
become
a Paul
might
be.
rebrobate:
but
Tau/
was
elected and indued
with faith;
and
come
a reìro-
therefore
force
eleéled and indued
with
faith may
become
reprobates. The propofition they
endeuour
to prooue by
this place
;
becaufe in chaflifing his
body to
this end
that he
might not
become
a
reprobate,
he
fheweth
himfelfe
doubt
-
full and fearefull
left
he
fhould become one.
I
anfwere,firft,
that
the original word
aid6x+F.ca.
here vfed,which
they tranflate
reprobate,
may more
fitly in
this
place
be
tranflated
reproo-
ucd,
as
it
is
in
our
Englifh tranflation
;
for
fo
it
is
fometimes
vfed,
as
2.Cor.i
3.7.
andHeb.6.8,
and
in this
tente
it
is
op-
2
Cori
3.=
pofed vnto one
who
is
approoued; and
fo
it
befl agreeth
Heb,6s.
with
the
fcope
ofthe
Avoflle in
this
place
;
for he
doth
not
fpeake
ofthe
reprobation
of
his
perfon
in
Gods
counfell,but
ofthe
difaproouing and
reie&lion
of
his
miniflery
by
God
and
his
Church,
ifhe
did
teach one
thing
and
praccife
ano-
z
z
2
ther.