Casuistical morning-exercises the fourth volume /

The Apostles were frequently exercised with difficulties, how to compose the differences among Christians; the Jewish Converts were eager to bring their Circumcision, with their observation of times and meats, along with them into Christianity, Gal. 4.10. The Gentiles were not accustomed to these things, and therefore opposed them, yet were as ready to bring a Tang of their own old Errors with them also, as their Doctrine of Demons, 1 Tim. 4.1. and their worshipping of Angels, Col. 2.18. and probably some of their Heathenish Festivals and Customs: So that both parties were in an error, and neither of them fully understood that liberty Christ had brought to them from these beggarly Elements, Rudiments and Ordinances to which they were in bondage. For if God saw good to free his Church from those Ceremonies which were instituted by himself, he would never allow them to be in a slavish subjection to the Superstitions and Ceremonies of worldly Mens inventions, tho' never so Dogmatically and Magisterially imposed. For as Learned Davenant on that Col. 2.18. observes, such injunctions are apt to grow upon Men, forbidding first not to touch or eat such and such meats▪ then not to taste, after not so much as to handle them.

The Apostles were frequently exercised with difficulties, how to compose the differences among Christians; the Jewish Converts were eager to bring their Circumcision, with their observation of times and meats, along with them into Christianity, Gal. 4.10. The Gentiles were not accustomed to these things, and therefore opposed them, yet were as ready to bring a Tang of their own old Errors with them also, as their Doctrin of Demons, 1 Tim. 4.1. and their worshipping of Angels, Col. 2.18. and probably some of their Heathenish Festivals and Customs: So that both parties were in an error, and neither of them fully understood that liberty Christ had brought to them from these beggerly Elements, Rudiments and Ordinances to which they were in bondage. For if God saw good to free his Church from those Ceremonies which were instituted by himself, he would never allow them to be in a slavish subjection to the Superstitions and Ceremonies of worldly Mens inventions, tho' never so Dogmatically and Magisterially imposed. For as Learned Davenant on that