EpiflleofS. Pail to Titus. CHAR.-I.i 5, euen fo firft we are reconciled vnto God throughChrifí, and then to the 291 creatures: for when Chrifi (who isour peace) bath wrought our peace withGod, he bringetWbackeour peace : both the inward peaceof our owue confciences,which before could doe nothing but accufeand terri- fic; a$ alto peace with others , friends and enemies , yea cuen with the beafof the field, andflonein thewall: andeuery thing ilriketh a couenant xoC :,rs, ofpeace with himwho hath entred into league wich the Creator of it. Ifany man then would haue any right in any creature he vfeth, he muff not hold it by the broken title in the firff Adam, but by a recouered and newe purchafc in the fecondAdam, who is the Lordof glorie, bleffed for ruer. The third general' pointie; How all thingsare pure to thepure ?eArnfiv, That we may rightly and properly conceiue the Apofiles meaning, wee mutt knowe , r. That the vniuerfall particle, all things ] admittteth re- hraint, and maynot'be extended beyond theApofiles intendment, who fpcaketh oncly ofiuch things as arenot forbiddenby the law ofGod,or nature: or rather only ofchingsofan indifferent nature, which in them- felues are neither commanded nor forbidden , andneither good nor cull in their fubfcance and nature, but are to bevfed or nor vied according to the circunrfiancesand occafions of them : fuch things as theee arc, meat, driuke, apparell, recreation, fleepe,marriage,fingle life,riches,pouerty, bondage, freedome, &c. And it may not feetne ftrange thus to reí+raine this generall propofition; feeing we haue it thus limited in fundry other places, a.Cor,6.4.e/1ll thingsare lawfull, but not profitable: and chap. so. z 3. ,lll things are laizfullfor mee, but not expedient-.Rom. t 4.20. Althies indeede are pure, bat delfroy notfor meats, &c, z, ßypure is meant no- thing elfe,but that all luch thingsare freenow to be vied in good could- ence, without fcruple, by meanescf our Chriflian libertie. And 3. in that he addeth to thepure, he fheweth how wecone to bane title in this libertie, cum by becomming beleeuers, andgetting our hearts purified by faith. In oneword,all in different things are pare , and free ro be vied at thepure and beleeuingperfon, with this onecondition ; Co they bee purely asid rightyvied. The whichpoint leadeth vs to denuaund and an- fwer a great qucífion worthy to be with judgement determined, as bee- ingof very great vie through the whole life of a Chriilian. Quell. Howmay things indifferent which in their nature are pure to the beleeuer, become fovnto him in their vie ? or how may he rightly and purely vie them. 4'nf. Then cloth the beleeuer vie them purely, when he is lead vnto, and moderated in the vie of themby three three venues: r.faith: 2. loue: 3.fobrietie. The firfl of which looketh vp vncoGod : the fecond Ti !co- Note well. How the pure ' ray vie any thing purcly,
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