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Word A	Word B	Word C	Word D	Occurrence	Frequency Band	MI	MI Band	Prominent
law_n	gain_v	jew_n	weak_a	10,116	5	11.7630	5	true

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ID	Title	Author	Corrected Date of Publication (TCP Date of Publication)	STC	Words	Pages
A27032	A second admonition to Mr. Edward Bagshaw written to call him to repentance for many false doctrines, crimes, and specially fourscore palpable untruths in matter of fact ... : with a confutation of his reasons for separation ... / by Richard Baxter ...	Baxter, Richard, 1615-1691.	1671 (1671)	Wing B1400; ESTC R16242	98,253	234

persecution oppression injuries slanders must be patiently let go as being none of ours when it cannot be kept by lawful means or without a greater hurt Acts 22. 28 c. Prop. 6. But our Liberty in either of these three last mentioned Cases ought not causelesly to be taken from us by others nor must be causelesly cast away by our selves nor should we yield to false Teachers who would deceive the Churches by telling them that they are under Divine Obligations when they are not and make them believe that things lawful are unlawful and things indifferent are necessary Gal. 2. 4 5. Col. 2. 16 18 20 21 22 23. Acts 15. 1 Cor. 7. 21 22. The third Proposition is it that I am to prove And Pauls becoming all things to all men to save some a Jew to the Jews his shaving his head his circumcising Timothy with the reasons of it his resolution to forbear the eating of flesh rather than offend the weak and his perswading others to do the like do fully prove it He maintaineth the Christians Right of Liberty against false Teachers but he maintaineth not the Exercise of it when he had reason to let it go For Liberty is not necessity 1 Cor. 9. 1. Am I not free 4 5. Have we not power to eat and to drink Have we not power to lead about a Sister a Wife as well as other Apostles 12. If others be partakers of this power over you are not we rather Nevertheless we have not used this power but suffered all things lest we should hinder the Gospel of Christ 15. But I have used none of these things 19 For though I be free from all men yet have I made my self servant to all that I might gain the more And unto the Jews I became a Jew that I might gain the Jews To them that are under the Law as under the Law that I might gain them that are under the Law To them that are without the Law as without Law that I might gain them that are without Law To the weak I became as weak that I might gain the weak I am made all things to all men that I might by all means save some And this I do for the Gospels sake See 1 Cor. 8. 13. Rom. 14. 21. It is good neither to eat flesh nor to drink wine nor any thing whereby thy brother stumbleth or is offended or is made weak Christ himself saith Matth. 17. 26. Then are the children free notwithstanding lest we should offend go thou c. and give them for me and thee 1 Pet. 2. 16. As free that is as such as by Christ are freed from true bondage but not from order and subjection and therefore not having or using liberty for a cloak of maliciousness but as the servants of God No man hath liberty to be unruly or hurtfull Rom. 7. 3. If her husband be dead she is free from that Law and yet may give away that freedom Yea of the very liberty from the Jewish Law the Apostle saith Gal. 5. 13. For ye have been called unto liberty q. d. therefore let not false Teachers perswade you that you are bound to that which you are freed from only use not liberty for an occasion to the flesh but by Love serve one another q. d. in the exercise of this Liberty you must do or not do the things you are at liberty in as may do most good according as the Law of Love requireth and not as your own carnal interest and lust inclineth you For all the Law is fulfilled in one word in this Thou shalt Love thy neighbour as thy self 1 Cor. 16. 25 28 29 30 31. Whatsoever is sold in the Shambles eat asking no question for conscience sake But if any man say unto you This is offered in sacrifice to Idols eat not for his sake that shewed it and for conscience sake Thus our liberty is not to be exercised against Love for we have no liberty to hurt our brethren 29. Conscience I say not thine own but of the others Thus others by weakness and consequently Rulers by authority may restrain the exercise of our liberty For why is my liberty judged of another mans Conscience that is Not that his Conscience is the Rule of my Right or his judgement taketh away my title to liberty but his interest and the Law of Love do take away my Right of using my liberty to anothers hurt 3. For if I by grace be a partaker that is lawfully according to my Christian liberty why am I evil spoken of for that for which I give thanks that is it is a fault in those that accuse me of sin when I do that which is lawful in it self abstracted from the Consequents or scandal Whether therefore ye eat or drink which are things indifferent as to the kind of food or whatsoever ye do how lawful in it self soever do all to the glory of God For the interest of the End must guide and restrain you in the use even of things in themselves indifferent For no man hath liberty to dishonour God nor to hurt another nor to disobey just power I beseech you therefore while you promise men liberty be not your self and make not them the servants of sin 2 Pet. 2. 19. And take notice that Liberty must be distinguished as to Right and as to Vse And that the use must often be denyed and not maintained 2. Let us next see Whether there be no way but separation in our Case to preserve our liberty Paul hath here shewed you another way 1. By doctrinal defence to defend it against false Teachers that would doctrinally brings us into bondage To maintain against such as you who add to Gods Laws that we are not bound to do that which is not commanded or to forbear that which is not by God forbidden though you say we are 2. To use our Liberty as it tendeth to Gods glory and mans good and disuse it when it crosseth these but not deny our right This is the Scripture way of preserving it and not to think that we have no way to preserve it but by doing hurt or crossing Love by Church-divisions 3. No falshood is a just defence of our Christian liberty But to say that a true Church is no true Church or true Worship is no true Worship or that it is not Lawful to communicate where it is lawful is a falshood Therefore it is no just defence of our Liberty Sect. 44. E. B. p. 12. 2. Being present where those things are used in the Worship of God which God hath not commanded this would involve us in the guilt and contagion of them nor do we believe however we have your word for the contrary the Lord will otherwise interpret it since he hath so strictly charged us to keep far from a false matter and not to partake in other mens sins R. B. Here are two more false doctrines intimated 1. That to use things in the