A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded upon the Church of Scotland Wherein not…A dispute against the English-popish ceremonies, obtruded vpon the Church of Scotland Wherein not…

The second rule is the rule of Charity: which teacheth us, not to use any thing indifferent, when scandal riseth out of it. Rom. 14. 21. It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or made weak; yea, though it do not ⟨p. 9⟩weaken, if it be not expedient for edifying our brother, be it never so lawful or indifferent in it's own nature, the Law of Charity bindeth us to abstain from it. Rom. 14. 19. Let us therefore follow after the things which make for peace, and the things wherewith one may edify another, Rom. 15. 2. Let every one of us please his neighbour for his good to edification, 1. Cor. 10. 23. All things are lawful for me, but all things are not expedient: All things are lawful for me, but all things edify not. Where the Apostle teacheth ^zthat, In cibo, &c. In meat, drink, and the whole kind of things indifferent, it is not enough to look whether they be lawful: but that further, we are to look, whether to do or omit the same, be expedient and may edify. The Bishop of Winchester preaching upon Joh. 16. 7. I tell you the trueth, it is expedient for you that I go away, &c. marketh, that Christ would not go away, without acquainting his Disciples with the reason of it: and that reason was, because it was for their good. Whereupon he inferreth, 1. That we should avoide ^aHophni's non vult enim, and make our vult our enim: that is, that we should not give our will for a reason, but a reason for our will. 2. That we should not with the ^bCorinthians stand upon licet, it is lawful; but frame our rule by expedit, it is expedient. 3. That our rule should not be ^c