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3. If an honest Christian mistake an indifferent thing to be a Sin, I would have him do his best to get a truer apprehension: But if he cannot, I would not have him do the thing: For he that can do that which he thinks a sin, tho by mistake, can as easily commit a real sin: And it is a real sin to him: for St. Paul saith, He that doubteth is damned if he eat, because he eateth not of faith: for whatever is not of faith, is sin.

Qu. But is such a man a martyr, or rewardable, who suffereth for his error?

Ans. He is rewardable as he suffereth for fearing to disobey God, and for that which is formally obedience, tho materially it was a mistaken thing. If you had a Servant who mistook your command, but died in the performance of that mistake, you would commend his fidelity: And if another that mistook you, did what you bid him by that mistake, but treacherously for hire, crossed what he thought you meant, you would take him for a perfidious knave.