546 t7'eatife of Confcience, at meat in the Idols temple, fhall not the Confeienee ofbim that rr Wea;\e be emboldened to eat thofe things whichare offered to r. ear. 8. Idols ? And through thy knowledge !hall thy wea ,brother pe- 9, ao. a I, rift for whomChrii died ? Where ye fee that weak conicìcn_ ces are apt to be milled. The realon is this. Becaufe when they fee others whom they know tobe mare learned and judicious then thernfelves to do ib and fó, that may fowl tempt them to do it though their confciencebe againft it. Pre r. Tl e fief}ufè is this ; Ifany have vveak cordeiences let them labour to flrengthea them. Ye fee what imperfeflions are in a weak confiencc ; how apt it is to be offended and to judge o- ther mens liberty, how prone to mifleading : therefore let every od foul bo The fecond ufe labour to s ;e Thole that be fkrong mull be carefull that they offend not the weak. Though they do believe filch and filch Chriflian liberties they have, yet ifthey know the ufe ofthem will offend their weak brother, they (hould be carefull dm,/4' to abflein; Let no man past aßttinblinn-block;° or an occafsn to 3 fall inhie brothers way. Thirdly, if it be filch a finne to finne againfl the confcience of the weak, then what a (inne is it to finne againft the con- fcience of all that are godly, whether weak ones or flrong ones? Yewho walk after the fIefli, and can have diforders in your families, and vanity in your mouths, and apparent corrup:ions in your lives ; Ye who can drink and be drun- ken and keep cornpiny and profane the Lords dayes ; ye offend the confciences of all that are godly : it is a grief to their fouls to fee it. Let 'me tell you ; It is ``a finne to be wicked however, and the high-way to hell : but to be wicked when ye have godly neighbours about you, your (inne now is double : For as you off:nd God, fo you offend them too. Ye may rememberwhat Chrifi faith, Whofoever offendeth one ofthefe little ones which believe in me, it were betterfor him that a Inil/lone were hang about his neck, and that he were drowned in the depth of the fea, M atth, t Q, 6. Ah ye vile wretches ! ye little imagine what fearefull vengeance ye pull on
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