Babylons downfall a sermon lately preached at Westminster before sundry of the honourable House…

If a thing be indifferent in its own nature, and the doing thereof offensive to a weak brother, Authority cannot write Jus divinum upon it; for to offend a weak brother, is to destroy him, 1 Cor. 8. 11. And the destruction of a weak brother; is the breach of the moral law. Now we all know, that ⟨p. 16⟩authority cannot write Jus divinum upon the breach of the moral law.

If a thing be indifferent in its owne nature, and the doing thereof offensive to a weake brother, Authority cannot write Jus divinum upon it; for to offend a weak brother, is to destroy him, 1 Cor. 8. 11. And the destruction of a weake brother; is the breach of the morall law. Now we all know, that ⟨p. 16⟩authority cannot write Jus divinum upon the breach of the morall law.

Sal•mon saith, Ecclesiast. 12. 13. Fear God, and keep his commandments, for this is the whole duty of man. As God is an all-sufficient being for a man to live upon, so Gods word is an all-sufficient rule for a man to live by. And if we look into Is. 30. 22. We shall find that God doth not only command, that the Images themselves should be destroyed, but that their coverings should be defiled. I remember what Master Dering said in a Sermon before Queen Elizabeth. There hath bin much dust in the house, and though for the present the house be swept, yet the dust is but laid behind the door, and a Hen will come that will spread it all abroad again. Wherefore, I beseech you take heed, that there be no dust left in the house of God in any corner. Give us the ordinances of Christ in their naked, and own colours, so shall they be blest to us, we under them, and you by them.