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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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Yea, of the very liberty from the Jewish Law, the Apostle saith, Gal. 5. 13. For ye have been called unto liberty (q. d. therefore let not false Teachers persuade you that you are bound to that which you are freed from) only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by ⟨p. 111⟩Love serve one another] q. d. in the exercise of this Liberty you must do or not do the things you are at liberty in, as may do most good, according as the Law of Love requireth, and not as your own carnal interest and lust inclineth you: For all the Law is fulfilled in one word, in this, Thou shalt Love thy neighbour as thy self.
Yea, of the very liberty from the Jewish Law, the Apostle saith, Gal. 5. 13. For ye have been called unto liberty (q. d. therefore let not false Teachers perswade you that you are bound to that which you are freed from) only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh, but by ⟨p. 111⟩Love serve one another] q. d. in the exercise of this Liberty you must do or not do the things you are at liberty in, as may do most good, according as the Law of Love requireth, and not as your own carnal interest and lust inclineth you: For all the Law is fulfilled in one word, in this, Thou shalt Love thy neighbour as thy self.
1 Cor. 16. 25, 28, 29, 30, 31. Whatsoever is sold in the Shambles eat, asking no question for conscience sake—But if any man say unto you, This is offered in sacrifice to Idols, eat not, for his sake that showed it, and for conscience sake (Thus our liberty is not to be exercised against Love: for we have no liberty to hurt our brethren) 29. Conscience I say, not thine own, but of the others: Thus others by weakness, and consequently Rulers by authority may restrain the exercise of our liberty) For why is my liberty judged of another mans Conscience? that is, Not that his Conscience is the Rule of my Right, or his judgement taketh away my title to liberty; but his interest and the Law of Love, do take away my Right of using my liberty to another's hurt. 3. For if I by grace be a partaker (that is, lawfully according to my Christian liberty) why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks, (that is, it is a fault in those that accuse me of sin, when I do that which is lawful, in it self, abstracted from the Consequents or scandal): Whether therefore ye eat or drink, (which are things indifferent as to the kind of