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t7'eatife
of
Confcience,
at
meat
in
the Idols
temple,
fhall
not
the
Con
feienee
of
bim
that
rr
Wea;\e
be emboldened
to
eat
thofe
things which
are
offered
to
r.
ear.
8.
Idols
?
And
through
thy knowledge
!hall
thy wea
,brother
pe-
9,
ao.
a
I,
rift
for
whom
Chrii
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 to
be
mare learned and judicious
then thernfelves
to
do
ib
and
fó,
that
may
fowl
tempt
them to
do
it
though
their confcience
be
againft it.
Pre
r.
Tl
e
fief}
ufè
is
this
;
If
any
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
if
they
know
the
ufe
of
them 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
in
hie
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? Ye
who
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 remember
what Chrifi
faith,
Whofoever offendeth
one
ofthefe
little
ones
which
believe
in me,
it
were
better
for
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