A discourse of conscience wherein is set down the nature, properties, and differences thereofA discourse of conscience wherein is set downe the nature, properties, and differences thereof

From this former rule arise three other: the first, What soever is done with a doubting conse•••e is a s•e. For example: some believers in the Primitive Church held, that still after the ascension of Christ there remained a difference between meat and meat, and therefore it was a scruple to them to eat of sundry kind of meats! •ow put the case, by example they are drawn on to eat swines flesh, or some other thing which they think is forbidden: and there […] no question but in so doing they have sinned, as Paul proveth, Rom. 14. v. 14. I know and […] persuaded through the Lord Jesus, that there is nothing unclean of it self: but unto him that judgeth any thing unclean, it is unclean: and v. 23. He that doubteth is condemned, if he eat: because he eateth not of faith.

From this former rule arise three other: the first, What soeuer is done vvith a doubting conse•••e is a s•e. For example: some beleeuers in the Primitive Church held, that still after the ascens•on of Christ there remained a difference betweene meate and meate, and therefore it was a scruple to them to eate of sundrie kinde of meates! •ow put the case, by example they are drawne on to eate swines flesh, or some other thing which they thinke is forbidden: and there 〈…〉 no question but in so doing they haue sinned, as Paul prooueth, Rom. 14. v. 14. I knovv and 〈…〉 persvvaded through the Lord Iesus, that there is nothing vncleane of it selfe: but vnto him that iudgeth any thing vncleane, it is vncleane: and v. 23. He that doubteth is condemned, if he eate: because he eateth not of faith.