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In the 14.¹ Chap. he teacheth that the weak in faith not as yet expert and cunning in Christian liberty,² ought to be patiently tolerated and borne withal through love: also how we ought to use that liberty not to any offence, but to the instruction and edifying of the weak conscience of our neighbour. For unless the offending of the weak be diligently and ⟨image 38⟩warily avoided, there will follow a discord and contempt of the Gospel: whose dignity and renown it stands us greatly upon to conserve and keep inviolate. Wherefore it were better to yield for a time to the weak in faith, until they be confirmed, than that the Gospel should be contemned or suppressed. And this is the chefest work of Christian love and Charity, which very many in these our days have need of, who abuse their liberty by eating of flesh, & by other means, hurting weak consciences, yea making them to stumble as it were in the entry and door of Christianity, before they know the liberty of Christ, and the way of righteousness.

In the 14.¹ Chap. hee teacheth that the weake in faith not as yet expert and cunning in Christian libertie,² ought to bee patiently tolerated and borne withall through loue: also how wee ought to vse that libertie not to any offence, but to the instruction and edifying of the weake conscience of our neighbour. For vnlesse the offending of the weake bee diligently and ⟨image 38⟩warely avoyded, there will follow a discord and contempt of the Gospell: whose dignitie and renoune it stands vs greatly vpon to conserue and keepe inviolate. Wherefore it were better to yeeld for a tyme to the weake in faith, vntill they bee confirmed, than that the Gospell should bee contemned or suppressed. And this is the chefest worke of Christian loue and Charitie, which verie many in these our dayes haue neede of, who abuse their libertie by eating of flesh, & by other means, hurting weake consciences, yea making them to stumble as it were in the entry and doore of Christianity, before they know the liberty of Christ, and the way of righteousnesse.