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ip of an hucband; my opinions is, Thar ſhe is more happy if the | of God, 7ob r. 6. & 2.1, —_—_— alſo called Gods, => kecp her [If a widow,” 2nd doth nor marry again ; not happy, be- 82.6. becauſe God had committed a great part of his Power Late cauſe more holy, or in a fairer 10ad ro the Kingdom of Heaven, but chem. Thus there are many Gods and many Lords, pon the Two ACCOUNTS before mentioned ; more happy, becaule 6 But * to us there is but one God 7, the F 2 # fi FR fs gr and 14s 01 6p ENT yy” of * whom are all things k. and we [tn him : Tz=e and at hb<rty to mind heavenly things. m » Tante K 1 4 eki-k ] know as ck of the mind if "y holy Spirit of God, as one Lord Jeſus Chrilt, * by whom are al] tl eicherthote who reach you otherwiſe, or who may have opinions and we by him m. it Ceatlary {ſO mine inthiscale. ; Whatever the Idolatrous Heathens rhink or believe to us(wh Ron are Chriftians) there is bur one who 15 rruly and eflentially cf 36 CHAP. VII. (though indeed there be more than one Perſon in the $5 %, 0 Another Q:1cftion an{wered concerning the eating of things offered ro Talols : k The Father, who 1s the Foundation of the Deity, communica? / bln It is no: enough rhyt we know that the Ido! is nothing : and that we his Divine Nature ro rhe other £wo Perſons, and of whom ate "I, have but 010 God and one Lord. 1—6. For ev-ry one hath not this know-| things. Iris a term which ſignifierh che p.imary Cauſe and A 't, ledre, but many would eat with an Evil Conſcience and periſh. 7 —11.] thor ofall things: weſubliſt ig him, according to that of the ry thus to off -nd a Brother for meat 15 a Sm againſt Chriſt, 12,13. poſtie, In him we vive and move and have our being, and We are Pl! * Ads 16.1 %, TOw * as touching things offered to. idols a, we ONT Lan, ( yu pbraſe may alſy jet [ A * |. 6 - , 3 wc all ;h. = BH ' know that we all have >. 0 Mg h, Know He is che {econd Perſon in the holy Triaicy, Ir is che obſer," = + "dee puffech up c: but Charity eameth -. of a learned Author, Thar rhough the Name of God be often given © Mahan, a The Apoſtle proceedeth to a new Argument, about which the to Chrilt, yer no where by Poul PR he makerk mention of (9g 74-14,22. Corintbinus had wrote to him, viz. about the eating of meat offe-, _y Father, from whence anenoingcs, 'T bac che rerm of Lord given Ped to Idols. Ofthis mear offered to Idols we have this Account to Chriſt, ſignitieth his preheminence above all things (the Father given us. Feaſtsupon Sacrifices were yery uſual amongſt the Hea- excepred) according to what ue Apoſtle ſpeaks Chap. x, 27. By thens ; thy firſt offered oxen, ſheep, or other cartle to the Idols, | this Chriſt, fairh the Apoltle, all things are, Joh. i. 3, 47 Pang Then the Prieft offered a part, burning 1t upon the Idol's Altar ; | were made by kim, and without hum was nothing mad: that was mak; other part they reſtored to the offerers, or rook it to themſelves, the | yet the diffrence of the phraſe 13 oblervable to denare to us the dr, der of working in the holy Trinity. - All things are of che Father |
P:icft made a Feaſt in the Idols Temple of their parts,'and invi. | de: x) $2 fiends td ic. The offerers either ſo feafted with the part reſtor- |? Sor. » And we (faith the Apoſtle) arc by the Son creat,
e&d ro them, in the Idols Teinple ; or carried it home, and there |reaecm.d, &c.
Lo dobate ok ith i carried it into the marker ; ES . feaſted their Neizhbours with it, or elſc carr | 7 Howbeit, there is not in every man that Maw;
| ſold it (as other meat) in the ſhambles. The Queftion was : ; | Whecherie © lawful for Chriſtians, being invited to theſe Feats/ledpe #: For ſome * with conſcience of the idgl'(
by thoſe amongſt whom they lived, to go to them, and to eat of| unto this hour, eat it is as a thing offered unt mn” ach mear, whether it were in the Idols Cemple, or at the Pagans| jqg| o, and their conſcience being weak, is * @& Houſes, or ifany ſuch meat were bought in the ſhambles, wherher filed p. | «|
they mighreat of thar. Some amongſt the Chriſtians at Corinth thought any of theſe were lawful, becauſe they knew an 1d! was| » Though ſome of you know that there 15 but one living an nothihg but a block or piece of wood or ſtone, and ſo could not de. | true God, and that an Ido] 1s nothing in the world and mer X file any thing. The Apoſtle tells them, that he knew, 6 that ve. | neither ſanCtified nor pol:uted, by being fer before it ; yer every
ry manv of them had good degrees of knowledge, and every one un- | one doth not know ſo much : and though the Goſpel hath been; derſtood that an Idol was nothing: but yet he warneth them to take long time preached amongſt them, yer to this day they may hare heed they were not puffed up wich their knowledge, that is, ſwel. ſome ſuperſtitious opinion of the Idol, p and then their Conſcience led in ſuch a confident opinion of ir, that they thought they could | will be defiled or pollured. Ir 1s much the ſame caſe at this day ag not be miſtaken, and be betrayed by their conceit of ir, to do thar | fo the buſineſs of Image-worſhip, or veneration of Images, anda. which is ſinful ; for d Charity edifjeth. Charity ſignifieth either | vocation of Saints amongſt the Ppilts. The wiſeſt and moſt know. love to God, © love to our Neighbour ; here the latter ſcemerh to be | ing of them will declaim againſt giving Divine Adoration to the intended, and the ſenſe this, That they were nor only concerned | Image, or to the Saint, and tell us, that they worſhip the true and
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in the good of their own Souls, but of their Neighbours alſo, and j living God upon the ſight of the Image only, and makeuſe of the ro do that which might tend to their profit and edification, not | name of the Saint only to deſire him or her to pray to God for