...thoughtless be likely to derive benefit from such examples of Christians ? Did the apostle Paul «ay, " If meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh...while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to ofi?nd ?" Should not we also look to the welfare of others ? If it be not perilous to ourselves, yet...

...&c. It. is allowable to eat any thing, without regard to the Levitical law. Yet St. Paul declares, "If meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth," 1 Cor. viii. 13, How many circumstances of this kind might I add? Let us retain what we have heard,...

...Estate to give to the Poor; shewing his Reasons from the Scripture: Mar. x. 21. Jer. xxxv. — Wherefore if Meat make my Brother to offend, I will eat no Flesh while the World standeth," &c. 1 Cor. viii. 18. Dr. Cheyne, who was an advocate for the vege» table diet, arid mentions the longevity...

...conclude with the apostle, ' Wheref(uv if meat (so we say of ceremonies) make my brother lo oflend, 1 will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend.' Therefore we dare not yield to those ceremonies, because, so far from edifying and building up the...

...ye sin so against the brethren, and wound their weak conscience, ye sin against -Christ. Wherefore, if meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world stundeth, lest I make mj brother to offend." Now these Pagan temples may be compared to our churches,...

...we sin against Christ. We conclude with the apostle, ' Wherefore if meat (so we say of ceremonies) make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest J make my brother to offend.' Therefore we dare not yield to these ceremonies, because, so far from...

...Holy Spirit are to be most studiously, prayerfully, devoutly, attended to. If Paul could resolve — "I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to offend ;" it ill becomes the puny Christians of our own day to exclaim, " I will do no such thing, lest my...

...brethren, he resolved to sacrifice his own comfort. " Wherefore, if meat maketh my brother to stumble, i will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make my brother to stumble.'' That we may be all subject one to another, let us therefore cultivate complacency of soul...

...neighbours Paul wrote this and part of the tenth ehapter. 13 Wherefore,if meat make my brother to offend,e I will eat no flesh while the world standeth, lest I make iny brother to ofl'end. gainst the brethren, and wound their weak eonseienee, ye .-in against Christ....

...sinning against the brethren, to wound their weak conscience, ye sin against Christ. 13. Therefore, if my meat make my brother to offend, I will eat no flesh while I live, lest I make him offend. CHAP. IX. MINISTEBS TO LIVE BY THE GOSPEL. AM I not an apostle? am...