The gof ell 14 Chrifts nonePoorer. 11.....-.... 1.^ to preffe the Wordupon the confcience with fuch fealo- VERSE 2. nable and finable enforceinents as may bee mots likely to convince thole judgements,and to allure tholeaffe6ti- ons which wehave todoe withal!. It is not knowledge in the generall, but the right ufe thereof; and wife appli- 1 arovt1.30. cationunto particulars which winneth foules.The tongase Prov of the wife ufeth kiowledge aright. This is that heavenly z Cordzo6. Craft wherewith the Apofile caught the Corinthians a/A.17.z3,z as it were by : fuch Art he ufeth towards the Phi- lofophers of Athens, not exafperating men who were heady and confident of their owne rules, but feeming rather to makeup the defeets which themfelves in the infcriptionof their Altar coddled, and to reveale that very God unto them, whom they worthipped, but did not know. Therefore wee finde him there honouring their owne learning, and out of that difputing for a re- furreaion, and againfl idolatry, to fhew that Chritlian Religion was no way again that learning or reaified reafon which they feemed to profeffe. The likeart hce Mid towards king Agrippa, firti prefumingofhis know- Ael __ .2,-2,3, ledge and credit which he gave to the Prophets,and then 27,2,9. meeting and Petting on his inclinable difpofition to embrace the Gofpell ; like the wifedomeof the fervants ofBenhadadunto Ahab, Theydiddiligentlyoiferverohe. ther any thing wouldcomefrom him,anddad haili,fycatch I ng 2o 33 it ; andthey laid,Thy Brother Benhadad. And the like wifedomehe riled every where, bee denied hirnfelfe his s r, owne libertie, and made hit/If-eke a krvant unto all ; to k-or 9,29-23. the Jew as a Jew, to the Greeke as a Grecke , to the weake as weake, and all things to all, that by all meanes hemight fave Come, and fo further the Gofpell, One while heufed Citunicifion that he might thereby game the weake j ewes, another while nee forbade Circumci- fion, that he might not mifguide the converted Gentiles, nor give placeby fubje&ion unto falfe brethren. Who is z Coni, 29, weak:, faithhe,and Iam not weake ?who is offended,andI burn" 255
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