The keys of the kingdom of heaven and power thereof according to the word…The keyes of the kingdom of heaven and power thereof according to the word…

As for the third Question, whether the Synod have power to enjoin such things as are both in their nature and their use indifferent? We should answer it negatively, and our reasons be:

As for the third Question, whether the Synod have power to injoyn such things as are both in their nature and their use indifferent? We should answer it negatively, and our reasons be:

1. From the pattern of that precedent of Synods, Act. 15.28. They laid upon the Churches no other burden, but those necessary things: necessary, though not all of them in their own nature, yet for present use, to avoid the offence both of Jew and Gentile: of the Jew, by eating things strangled and blood; of the Gentile and Jew both, by eating things sacrificed to Idols, as Paul expoundeth that Article of the Synod, 1 Cor. 8.10, 11, 12. and Chap. 10.28. This ea ing with offence was a murder of a weak brothers soul, and a sin against Christ, 1 Cor. 8.11, 12. and therefore necessary to be forborne, necessitate praecepti, by the necessity of Gods Commandment.

1. From the pattern of that precedent of Synods, Act. 15.28. They laid upon the Churches no other burthen, but those necessary things: necessary, though not all of them in their own nature, yet for present use, to avoid the offence both of Jew and Gentile: of the Jew, by eating things strangled and blood; of the Gentile and Jew both, by eating things sacrificed to Idols, as Paul expoundeth that Article of the Synod, 1 Cor. 8.10, 11, 12. and Chap. 10.28. This ea ing with offence was a murther of a weak brothers soule, and a sin against Christ,