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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
A discourse of conscience wherein is set down the nature, properties, and differences thereof: as also the way to get and keep good conscience.A discourse of conscience wherein is set downe the nature, properties, and differences thereof: as also the way to get and keepe good conscience.
Cambridge: printed by John Legate, 1596Cambridge: printed by Iohn Legate, 1596
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The third: we must use things indifferent so far forth as they shall further us in godliness. For we ought to do all things not only to the edification of others, but also of our own selves. And therefore it is a flat abuse of christian liberty, for men so to pamper their bodies with meat and drink, that thereby they disable themselves to hear Gods word, to pray, to give good counsel, to do the ordinary works of their callings.
The third: we must use things indifferent so farre foorth as they shall further us in godlinesse. For we ought to doe all things not only to the edification of others, but also of our own selues. And therefore it is a flat abuse of christian liberty, for men so to pamper their bodies with meate and drinke, that thereby they disable themselues to heare Gods word, to pray, to giue good counsell, to doe the ordinary works of their callings.
The fourth: things indifferent must be used ⟨p. 106⟩within the compass of our callings, that is, according to our ability, degree, state and condition of life. And it is a common abuse of this liberty in our days, that the mean man will be in meat, drink, apparel, building, as the gentleman's the gentleman as the knight; the knight as the lord or Earle.
The fourth: things indifferent must be used ⟨p. 106⟩within the compasse of our callings, that is, according to our ability, degree, state and condition of life. And it is a common abuse of this liberty in our dayes, that the meane man will be in meate, drinke, apparell, building, as the gentlemans the gentleman as the knight; the knight as the lord or Earle.