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A defence of the principles of love, which are necessary to the unity and…
A defence of the principles of love, which are necessary to the unity and concord of Christians and are delivered in a book called The cure of church-divisions ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Nevil Simmons, 1671
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.
EXCEPT. XII. Answered. Here we have first a mere magisterial dictate without proof, that I speak [triflingly] about 1Scandal, and show how little I understand it. But where's his reason or Confutation? 2. Why all is but this [Paul would not eat flesh rather than he would offend his weak brother, &c.] Judge, Reader, whether the bare2 citing of these words be any proof, that in Scripture, Scandal is not taken more for tempting, ensnaring, and laying before men an occasion of stumbling, or sinning, than for mere displeasing men, which is the thing that I affirmed.
EXCEPT. XII. Answered. Here we have first a meer magisterial dictate without proof, that I speak [triflingly] about 1Scandal, and shew how little I understand it. But where's his reason or Confutation? 2. Why all is but this [Paul would not eate flesh rather than he would offend his weak brother, &c.] Judge, Reader, whether the bare2 citing of these words be any proof, that in Scripture, Scandal is not taken more for tempting, ensnaring, and laying before men an occasion of stumbling, or sinning, than for meer displeasing men, which is the thing that I affirmed.
- 1Of Pauls not scandalizing the weak.
- 2I know that Expositors much differ about the weak brother here described, but not in the point that I now urge the •ext for.