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A godly and learned exposition or commentary upon the three first chapters of the…A godly and learned exposition or commentarie vpon the three first chapters of the…
A godly and learned exposition or commentary upon the three first chapters of the Revelation. Preached in Cambridge by that reverend and judicious divine, master William Perkins, Ann. Dom. 1595. First published for the benefit of Gods Church, by Robert Hill, Bachelor of DivinityA godly and learned exposition or commentarie vpon the three first chapters of the Reuelation. Preached in Cambridge by that reuerend and judicious diuine, maister William Perkins, Ann. Dom. 1595. First published for the benefit of Gods Church, by Robert Hill, Bachelor of Diuinitie
London: printed by Adam Islip for Cuthbert Burbie, 1606
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
For the eating of things sacrificed to idols, they would plead thus. I. From the doctrine of christian liberty, Things indifferent may •e lawfully used. Things offered to idols are things indifferent, as meats, and drinks, and therefore may lawfully be used. Ans. Meats and drinks, if they be considered in themselves, are things indifferent, and may lawfully be used: yea after they have been offered to idols, if they be sold in the market, they may be lawfully bought and eaten in private houses, if it be done without offence of the weak, as Paul teacheth at large, 1. Cor. 10.25.29. But if these meats be considered as they are offered to idols, and eaten in the idols temple in the honour of idols, they be unlawful. And yet the Nicolaitans held this to be lawful.
For the eating of things sacrificed to idols, they would pleade thus. I. From the doctrine of christian libertie, Things indifferent may •e lawfully vsed. Things offered to idols are things indifferent, as meates, and drinkes, and therfore may lawfully be vsed. Ans. Meats and drinkes, if they bee considered in themselues, are things indifferent, and may lawfully be vsed: yea after they haue bene offered to idols, if they be sold in the market, they may bee lawfully bought and eaten in priuat houses, if it be done without offence of the weake, as Paul teacheth at large, 1. Cor. 10.25.29. But if these meats be considered as they are offered to idols, and eaten in the idols temple in the honor of idols, they be vnlawfull. And yet the Nicolaitans held this to be lawfull.
II. Reason. An idol is nothing, 1. Cor. 8.4. and therefore we sin not in eating meats offered unto them▪ Ans. An idol is nothing, that is, in nature subsisting nothing created or ordained of God, it hath no property of the godhead but yet an idol is something in mans imagination, which giveth to it the honour of God, and reputeth it as God, making it a God unto himself.