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A second admonition to Mr. Edward Bagshaw written to call him to repentance for…
A second admonition to Mr. Edward Bagshaw written to call him to repentance for many false doctrines, crimes, and specially fourscore palpable untruths in matter of fact ... : with a confutation of his reasons for separation ... / by Richard Baxter ...
London: printed for Nevill Simmons, 1671
A second Admonition to Mr. Edward Bagshaw written in some hope of c… › Section 43
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The third Proposition is it that I am to prove. And Pauls becoming all things to all men, to save some, a Jew to the Jews, his shaving his head, his circumcising Timothy, with the reasons of it, his resolution to forbear the eating of flesh, rather than offend the weak, and his persuading others to do the like, do fully prove it. He maintaineth the Christians Right of Liberty against false Teachers; but he maintaineth not the Exercise of it, when he had reason to let it go: For Liberty is not necessity, 1 Cor. 9. 1. Am I not free? 4, 5. Have we not power to eat and to drink? Have we not power to lead about a Sister, a Wife, as well as other Apostles? 12. If others be partakers of this power over you, are not we rather? Nevertheless we have not used this power, but suffered all things lest we should hinder the Gospel of Christ.—15. But I have used none of these things—19▪ For though I be free from all ⟨p. 110⟩men, yet have I made my self servant to all, that I might gain the more: And unto the Jews I became a Jew, that I might gain the Jews; To them that are under the Law, as under the Law, that I might gain them that are under the Law: To them that are without the Law, as without Law, that I might gain them that are without Law. To the weak I became as weak, that I might gain the weak: I am made all things to all men, that I might by all means save some. And this I do for the Gospels sake—See 1 Cor. 8. 13. Rom. 14. 21. It is good neither to eat flesh, nor to drink wine, nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth, or is offended, or is made weak.
The third Proposition is it that I am to prove. And Pauls becoming all things to all men, to save some, a Jew to the Jews, his shaving his head, his circumcising Timothy, with the reasons of it, his resolution to forbear the eating of flesh, rather than offend the weak, and his perswading others to do the like, do fully prove it. He maintaineth the Christians Right of Liberty against false Teachers; but he maintaineth not the Exercise of it, when he had reason to let it go: For Liberty is not necessity,