Several discourses tending to promote peace & holiness among Christians to which are added,…

1. It supposeth some Offer and Revelation made to us; that Grace is brought •ome to us, and Salvation offered to us: Jews, and professing Christians, are more properly said to be offended in Christ, than Heathens who never heard, nor sought after him; 1 Cor. 1. 23. We preach Christ crucified, to the Jews a stumbling-block, to the Greeks, foolishness. They stumble, who being invited to come to ⟨p. 223⟩him, dislike and are displeased with something in him; or being on their way, are upon some occasion and temptations, laid aside and prejudiced; and either stumble or fall in the way undertaken by them, or have no heart to go forward, but either directly retire or saint.

1. It supposeth some Offer and Revelation made to us; that Grace is brought •ome to us, and Salvation offered to us: Jews, and professing Christians, are more properly said to be offended in Christ, than Heathens who never heard, nor sought after him; 1 Cor. 1. 23. We preach Christ crucified, to the Iews a stumbling-block, to the Greeks, foolishness. They stumble, who being invited to come to ⟨p. 223⟩him, dislike and are displeased with something in him; or being on their way, are upon some occasion and temptations, laid aside and prejudiced; and either stumble or fall in the way undertaken by them, or have no heart to go forward, but either directly retire or saint.

2. It expresseth or implieth such an Offence, that either they are kept off from Christ, or else drawn away from him.