A care-cloth

Thirdly, things in themselves lawful, but abused to superstition or Idolatry, are not by the such abuse of them, made unlawful to be used (of those that know the truth, and are free from such abusive conceit of them) either in civill life, or in the solemnities of Divine Service. For example: Churches built and dedicate to Idols, may lawfully be converted to the service of the true God, and there is no necessity of pulling them down, and building other in their rooms. ⟨p. 18⟩Lying along on beds, and feasting in that manner, was greatly abused of the Romans in their public Idolatry, called Lectisternia, yet the Jews did keep that gesture in their Passover, and our Saviour conformed thereto, yea, though then, many of the Romans lived among them, and they were under the government of the Romans. Meat offered to Idols, might be eaten at any feast (save in the Idols Temple) yea, at their Love-feasts, which were accustomed to be made, when they met to receive the Lords Supper: for now to the pure,¹ all things are pure, and now it is lawful to become all things to all men, yea, to him that is without Law,² to be made as without Law; which could not be, if his abusing of a lawful thing to superstition, made it unlawful for me to conform with him in that thing. For indeed, the strict and precise commandment, whereby God did enjoin the Jews to shun the customs of the Gentiles, even in things otherwise lawful, because by them abused, was proper to the times of the Law, as being part of that partition wall which Christ hath broken down, that he might make of both one.

Thirdly, things in themselues lawfull, but abused to superstition or Idolatry, are not by the such abuse of them, made vnlawfull to bee vsed (of those that know the truth, and are free from such abusiue conceite of them) either in ciuill life, or in the solemnities of Diuine Seruice. For example: Churches built and dedicate to Idols, may lawfully be conuerted to the seruice of the true God, and there is no necessitie of pulling them down, and building other in their roomes. ⟨p. 18⟩Lying along on beds, and feasting in that manner, was greatly abused of the Romanes in their publike Idolatrie, called Lectisternia, yet the Iewes did keepe that gesture in their Passeouer, and our Sauiour cōformed thereto, yea, though then, many of the Romanes liued among them, and they were vnder the gouernement of the Romanes. Meate offered to Idols, might be eaten at any feast (saue in the Idols Temple) yea, at their Loue-feasts, which were accustomed to be made, when they met to receiue the Lords Supper: for now to the pure,