The mischiefs of self-ignorance and the benefits of self-acquaintance opened in divers sermons at…

And it is others as well as Papists th•• ⟨p. 37⟩would be kept from Church divisions, if they did but know themselves. Church Governors would be afraid of laying things unnecessary as stumbling-blocks before the weak and of laying the Unity and Peace of the Church upon them; and casting out of the Vineyard of the Lord, and out of their Communion all such as are not in such unnecessary or little things, of their opinion or way. The words of the great Apostle of the Gentiles, Rom. 14.15. so plainly and fully deciding this matter, would not have stood so long in the Bible, as non-dicta or utterly insignificant, in the eyes of so many Rulers of the Churches, if they had known themselves, as having need of their Brethren's charity and forbearance. [Him that is weak in the faith receive you; but not to doubtful disputations: For one believeth that he may eat all things; another that is weak eateth herbs: Let not him that eateth despise him that eateth not, (much less destroy him or excommunicate him) and let not him which eateth not, judge him that eateth: For God hath received him. Who art thou that judgest another mans servant? to his own Master he standeth or falleth; yea he shall be holden up; for God is able to make him stand. One man esteemeth one ⟨p. 38⟩day above another; another esteemeth every day alike: let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.— ver. 13. [Let us not therefore judge one another any more: but judge this rather that no man put a stumbling-block, or an occasion to fall in his brothers way. — ver. 17. For the Kingdom of God is not meat and drink; but righteousness and peace and joy in the Holy Ghost. 18. For he that in these things serveth Christ, is acceptable to God and approved of men.] Chap. 15.1. [We then that are strong ought to bear with the infirmities of the weak, and not to please our selves] v. 7. [Wherefore receive ye one another, as Christ also received us to the glory of God.] Self-acquaintance would help men to understand these precepts; and be patient with the weak when we our selves have so much weakness; and not to vex or reject our brethren for little or unnecessary things, lest Christ reject or grieve us that have greater faults.

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