( 276 ) For (i.) It was only a DoctrinalDetermination, with- out Impofition on the Prac`tife ofany. (2.) It was a Determination again ft Impo(itions direit- ly. And whereas it is fàid, that it was a Determination contrary to the Judgment of the Impofers, which fhews, that the lisle of Forbearance where ConPence is alledged both ways, is no f anding Rule ; I grant that it was con- trary to the Judgment of the Impofers, but impofeed no- thing on them, nor was their Pra&ice concerned in that erronious Judgement. They were not required to do any thing contrary to their own Judgment ; and the not doingwhereofdid reflect on their own Confciences. Wherefore the whole Rule given by the Apoftle and the whole Determination made, is that no Impotions be made on the Confciences or Practife ofthe Difciples of Christ, in things relating to his Worship, but what were neceffary byvertue ofDivine Institution. They added hereunto, that the Gentiles enjoying this Liberty, ought to ufe it without ofnce; and were at Liberty by vertue of it, to forbear fuck things, as wherein they had, or thought they had a natural Liberty, in cafe they gave Offence by the ufe of them. And the Apoftles who knew the ftate of things, in the Minds of the Jews, and all other Circumftances give an Inftance in the things which at that feafon, were to be fo forborn. And whereas this Determination was not absolute and obliga- tory on the whole Cafe, unto all Churches, namely, whether the Mofaical Law were to be observed among Chriftians, but force Churches were left unto their own judgement and Practie, who esteemed it to be f1í11 in force, as theChurches of the Jews, and others left unto . their own Liberty and Pra6tife alto, who judged it not to oblige them, both fides or Parties being bound to con- tinue.
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