2. Take heed ye be not offended with Christ and Religion because of the Babes who are yet as carnal: as it should and doth oblige Gods people not to be as carnal, lest they give the enemies of God (as David did) an occasion to blaspheme, and cause the way of truth to be evil spoken of; so it obligeth the men of this world not to be offended with and to blaspheme the way of God and his people, because some of them, viz. the Babes, are yet as carnal and walk as men. The worldly seed is hugely illogical and draw many non sequiturs, for say they, These professors are as bad as others, they are all alike, and this is their Religion. Not so neither, for though they are as carnal, yet they are not carnal and in the flesh as other men are, (nullum simile est idem) though they be too much like, yet they are not carnal men, for they are in Christ Jesus; and though they take too many ⟨p. 223⟩steps after the manner of men, yet they walk nor (their whole conversation is not) after or according to the flesh as other men, who are in and walk according to the flesh; and though some are as carnal, yet all are not so, there are who are spiritual and walk in and according to the Spirit. As for them that do otherwise, 'tis not their Religion but they are to blame, for they have not so learned Christ Jesus, his doctrine teacheth not, but (dedocet tales mores) unteacheth them such ill manners, to walk as men. 'Tis the Devils Logic to draw an Argument from seeming to being, or from similitude to Identity; from a particular to a universal; and from the concrete to the abstract: that because they are as carnal, therefore they are but carnal and wholly so: because one is bad, they are all alike; because Professors are to be blamed, therefore Religion it self is criminal! The grace of God hath taught all to deny ungodliness and worldly lusts, to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world; which if Prof;essors do not do, 'tis not graces fault but theirs, and therefore take heed ye be not offended with Christ and Religion because of them. And you professors learn from hence to walk circumspectly, lest the way and name of God be blasphemed through you; and lest Christ suffer, because you sin. Let not the world despise you, let them not have any occasion given them by you to despise you and that which is better than you, viz. the Christian Religion.
2. Take heed ye be not offended with Christ and Religion because of the Babes who are yet as carnal: as it should and doth oblige Gods people not to be as carnal, lest they give the enemies of God (as David did) an occasion to blaspheme, and cause the way of truth to be evil spoken of; so it obligeth the men of this world not to be offended with and to blaspheme the way of God and his people, because some of them, viz. the Babes, are yet as carnal and walk as men. The worldly seed is hugely illogical and draw many non sequiturs, for say they, These professors are as bad as others, they are all alike, and this is their Religion. Not so neither, for though they are as carnal, yet they are not carnal and in the flesh as other men are, (nullum simile est idem) though they be too much like, yet they are not carnal men, for they are in Christ Jesus; and though they take too many ⟨p. 223⟩steps after the manner of men, yet they walk nor (their whole conversation is not) after or according to the flesh as other men, who are in and walk according to the flesh; and though some are as carnal, yet all are not so, there are who are spiritual and walk in and according to the Spirit. As for them that do otherwise, 'tis not their Religion but they are to blame, for they have not so learned Christ Jesus, his doctrine teacheth not, but (dedocet tales mores) unteacheth them such ill manners, to walk as men. 'Tis the Devils Logick to draw an Argument from seeming to being, or from similitude to Identity; from a particular to a universal; and from the concrete to the abstract: that because they are as carnal, therefore they are but carnal and wholly so: because one is bad, they are all alike; because Professors are to be blamed, therefore Religion it self is criminal! The grace of God hath taught all to deny ungodliness and wordly lusts, to live soberly, righteously, and godly in this present world; which if Prof;essors do not do, 'tis not graces fault but theirs, and therefore take heed ye be not offended with Christ and Religion because of them. And you professors learn from hence to walk circumspectly, lest the way and name of God be blasphemed through you; and lest Christ suffer, because you sin. Let not the world despise you, let them not have any occasion given them by you to despise you and that which is better than you, viz. the Christian Religion.
