396 Chap.54 ACemmentarievpast waime, whenpeoplebe vncapablcofd011rine,it maybe clicea. led, till they beprepared for it. Chrifl told his ditciples that he badman), things is tellthem ,which they could not then learnt. Some beleeuers muff haue no Along meate, but milke onely. Thirdly, when the teaching ofa lefler truthhinders the teach mg of a fundamental! truth, the lcffer truth may be concealed, 3 that thefundamental! truth maybe taught,and take place. Here we fee the fidelitie of Paul : ifhe had fought hirnfelfe, his honour, profit, or pleafure , he wouldnothaue taught any doE rine that fhould haue caufed perfecution. The like minder to mull be inall teachers ,.nay ín all beleeuers , who arc to receiue theGofpel for it felfe, without rcfp.eEl to honour , profit, or pleafure. Paul addesfurther inway of.defence, that the fcandall of the crofTe was=not abolifhed. Henceitfollowes,that the Gofpel tf muff bepreached, though all:rnenbe offcndcd.God mull not bedifpleaafed thoughall men be difpleafed. A. S.29.lndccde Chríff pronounceth a woe againff them by whome offences come hut that ismeant of offences giuen, andnot ofoffences taken: of which Chrifl bath an other rule, Matth. 15, z 4. Let ss them alone, theyare the 61indleaders ofthe blind. Againe,by theoffence ofthe Iewes,wc fee the mind ofnaen, whocannot be content with the death and pailion of Chrifl, vnlctre they may adds workes, or fòmethingcis oftheir owner for their iuflification andfaluation. Thus doe thePapifls at 25, this day : and the like dot manyoldie ignorant people among vs, that will be faucd by tlicir good dealing:, and; their good feruingofGod. Touching the imprecation in the z a. verle, three queflions are tó bepropounded. The fin i is, whether Pauldidwell thus l® i to curie his enemies? I anfwer, yea : for firft wemull put a dif Terence bctweene the private caufe of man , and the caufe of Gad. Now Paul accurfeth the Palle Apofiles, not in refpeel of 1 bisowne caufe, but in refpeet ofthe caufe ofGod ; and not as his ovine- enemies ; but as thc=enetnies ofGod. Secondly ,we sS 1 múfl ddhinguifh the perlons of mill men. Some are curable,, .i and lance againc are incurable, of whoft faluation there it not hope; Now Paul dir-eecs his.imprecation again it perlons incu- I table. And he.knew them to be incurable by force extraordofI narieinfpiration or'inflrn 1, (as the Prophet an_ te;
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