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The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner,…
The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entitled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templars sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.The questions between the conformist and nonconformist, truly stated, and briefly discussed Dr. Falkner, The friendly debate &c., examined and answered : together with a discourse about separation, and some animadversions upon Dr. Stillingfleet's book entituled, The unreasonableness of separation : observations upon Dr. Templers sermon preached at a visitation in Cambridge : a brief vindication of Mr. Stephen Marshal.
London: printed for Tho. Cockerill, 1681
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For that weak Christian might be strongly convinced that Christian Religion was true, though he could not as yet see the repealing of those Laws upon the reasons I gave before; yet through the unkindness, pride, cruelty of the stronger Christians who would judg, despise him, and not receive him unless he would eat the forbidden meats, as they did; and through their example, whom he saw to eat, he might be put upon a temptation to eat such meats too, not in faith, but with a doubtful conscience, and so doing, he was condemned according to the last verse. So their pride, unkindness, and example, did help to destroy their brother as much as in them lay.
Hence in the first verse of the Chapter, the Apostle charges them not to trouble such a one with doubtful disputations: [Greek or Hebrew], &c. *In the last verse he ends with, He that doubteth, [Greek or Hebrew], is damned; so that he begins and ends with doubtfulness. Now had the weak Christian fallen off from the Faith, the weak Christian would not have eaten such meats doubtfully, and so bring himself under the danger of condemnation for so doing; for to be sure he would eat none of those meats which made him fall off from Christianity, because he saw Christians eat them, there was no danger of his damning for eating with a doubting conscience; so that this implies, that he who eats with doubting, did yet hold his Christianity.
Hence in the first verse of the Chapter, the Apostle charges them not to trouble such a one with doubtful disputations: 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, &c. *In the last verse he ends with, He that doubteth, 〈non-Latin alphabet〉, is damned; so that he begins and ends with doubtfulness. Now had the weak Christian fallen off from the Faith, the weak Christian would not have eaten such meats doubtfully, and so bring himself under the danger of condemnation for so doing; for to be sure he would eat none of those meats which made him fall off from Christianity, because he saw Christians eat them, there was no danger of his damning for eating with a doubting conscience; so that this implys, that he who eats with doubting, did yet hold his Christianity.