2 0 The fn,f ulneffe of Sinne. I Eadem operi l;oneinux, fu ut ciufás7b.tti4cYint tam.resvel malas, nitttc fu;,2t bc1i, ',wow ma á;quæ noo , Plteccra,&ec. Aug. contr. me,vdacium ad co,Jjent. li. c.7. but yet, becaufe the doing of them Both not neceflarily and intriníècally take in an ayme and refpedt to G o n, but is onely reducible unto him, and that fo as that the fame thing may bee done with other refpeas, therefore the Goodnere is not in the things themfelves barely conf dereJ, but in the right manner of performing them. Such were Iebai his zeale, the Pharifees praying,the hypo- crites faühing,.and the like. In one word, Tome things are fo inherently good, that though they may be done imper. fetly, yet they cannot be done profanely ; others fo good with relation to God, that becaufe they may bee done without that relation, and fuch other conformities as are required in them, therefore they may ceafe at all to bee good ; as to preach out of envie,to pray out of hypocrifìe, co fait out of opinion of' merit, &c. Now as indí9Ferent things may bee made good by cir- cnmftances : as to eate or not to eate is indifferent, yet not to Bate, for feare of fcandall, is charity, and to eater for feare of fuperflition, is Chrifianliberty.Fo obferve things indt f feront as indi f ferent,.withour.aIiy conícience of the ithing it felfe, onely in doe fubmif iiontothecorn- mands, of ¡rift .authority, i .'obedience ; to obferv'e the fame things without fuch authority, and that upon iii- perilitious reafons, direCled tabinde the Conicience, and leading to the thing as fuch a thing, is in regard of others great fcandafl, and in regard n6 mans felfe bondage and Idolatry : Thus I fay, as indd f Brent things may bee made good or bad by circumflances : fo other- things, the matter of which is commanded; may yet bee-made in the doin? of themeurll, when that dine rerpea and, conformity which die Law wherein it is commanded requi eth is not obferved. If a man build a wall, with pretence to keepe out the. Sea_ or an. enemy,, and yet leave a-wide gap and entrance open to admit them, though bee who fees no- thing but firme Wall.may admire the worke, yet he who viewer the whole will but deride it ; to though a man doe
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