Christs commination against scandalizers, or, A treatise wherein the necessitie, nature, sorts, and evils of scandalizing are clearly and fully handled with resolution of many questions, especially touching the abuse of Christian liberty, shewing that vengeance is awarded against such as use it to the grievance of their weake brethren / by Iohn Tombes ...
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Christs commination against scandalizers, or, A treatise wherein the necessitie, nature, sorts, and evils of scandalizing are clearly and fully handled with resolution of many questions, especially touching the abuse of Christian liberty, shewing that vengeance is awarded against such as use it to the grievance of their weake brethren / by Iohn Tombes ...
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Tombes, John, 1603?-1676.
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London :: Printed for E. Forrest, and are to be sold by Richard Royston ...,
1641.
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"Christs commination against scandalizers, or, A treatise wherein the necessitie, nature, sorts, and evils of scandalizing are clearly and fully handled with resolution of many questions, especially touching the abuse of Christian liberty, shewing that vengeance is awarded against such as use it to the grievance of their weake brethren / by Iohn Tombes ..." In the digital collection Early English Books Online. https://name.umdl.umich.edu/a62865.0001.001. University of Michigan Library Digital Collections. Accessed May 30, 2024.
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The Contents.
CAP. 1. Of the meaning of the Text,
and the necessity of
Scandalls.
Parag: 1. THe speaker and
occasion of the
words.
Parag. 2. The partition of the
Text.
Parag. 3. The explication of
the word Scandall in the pro∣per
acception.
Parag. 4. Scandall in the
Scripture use.
Parag. 5. Of the sorts of effe∣ctive
scandall.
Parag. 6. The necessity of
scandalls.
Parag. 7. In respect of scan∣dalizers.
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...Parag. 8. Of persons scandali∣zed.
Parag. 9. Of Satan.
Parag. 10. Of God.
Parag. 11. For what ends or∣dered
by him.
Parag. 12. The application.
1. To justify religion notwith∣standing
the scandals of the
professors of it.
Parag. 13. To magnify the
providence of God.
Parag. 14. To teach men to
walke circumspectly.
Parag. 15. To waite for
Christs comming.
CAP. 2. Of the woe belonging to
scandalizers in generall.
Parag. 1. THe explication of
the words of the
second proposition of the Text.
Parag. 2. That a woe belongs
to scandalizers.
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...Parag. 4. Who are scandali∣zers,
and to what scandali∣zing
woe belongs.
Parag. 5. What woe belongs to
them.
Parag. 6. 7. Why a woe be∣longs
to them.
Parag. 8. Application 1. to
manifest the danger of scanda∣lizers.
Parag. 9. To admonish them of
their sinne.
Parag. 10. Directions to a∣voyd
it.
CAP. 3. Of scandalizing in speciall
by sinfull example.
Parag. 1. SCandalizing distri∣buted
into foure
wayes.
Parag. 2. A woe belongs to
them that scandalize by sinfull
example.
Parag. 3. What actions of sin∣full
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example doe scandalize.
Parag. 4. How they doe scan∣dalize.
Parag. 5. Why a woe belongs
to such.
Parag. 6. Application 1. to
move them to mourne that
scandalize by sinfull example.
Parag. 7. 2. To move men to
take heed of scandalizing by
sinfull example.
Parag. 8. 3. And others that
they be not scandalized by sin∣full
example.
Parag. 9. Directions to pre∣vent
it.
CAP. 4. Of scandalizing in speciall
by abuse of liberty in
things lawfull.
Parag. 1. A Woe belongs to
scandalizers by
abuse of liberty in things law∣full.
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...Parag. 2. Reasons thereof out
of S. Paules Epistles.
Parag. 3. The difficulty of this
point, and quaeres propounded
to cleare it.
Parag. 4. Answer of the first
quaere, what are things law∣full
and indifferent, and what
is our liberty in their use.
Parag. 5. What wayes our li∣berty
in things indifferent
may be restrained.
Parag. 6. The summary of the
Apostles resolutions about
scandall in the use of things in∣different
delivered Rom. 14.
Parag. 7. And 1. Cor. 8. 9. 10.
Chapters.
Parag. 8. Quest. 1. Who are
to avoyde scandalizing by a∣buse
of liberty in things indif∣ferent.
Parag. 9. Quest. 2. Scandali∣zing
of whom by such abuse is
to be avoyded.
Parag. 10. Quest. 3. Whether
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strong ones are obnoxious to
such scandall.
Parag. 11. Quest. 4. Who are
to be accounted weake ones not
to be thus scandalized.
Parag. 12. Quest. 5. What evill
consequent on our actiō makes
scandalizing of this sort.
Parag. 13. Quest. 6. How long
we are to forbeare our liberty
for feare of scandall.
Parag. 14. Quest. 7. What
foresight of scandall conse∣quent
is necessary to make a
man capable of scandalizing
this way.
Parag. 15. Quest. 8. Whether
the restraint of our liberty for
feare of scandall be universall.
Parag. 16. Quest. 9. Whether
scandall may be by omission of
the use of our liberty.
Parag. 17. Quest. 10. Whether
a community or a Magistrate
may be scandalized.
Parag. 18. Quest. 11. What we
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are to doe when there is danger
of scandall one way, and of dis∣obedience
to the Magistrate
another way.
Parag. 19. Quest. 12. What we
are to doe in case of scandall
either by using or not using
our liberty.
Parag. 20. Quest. 13. What
we are to doe when the forbea∣ring
of our liberty indangers
the losse of it.
Parag. 21. Quest. 14. What
wee are to doe when there is
danger of life by not using our
liberty, of scandall by using it.
Parag. 22. Quest. 15. What
we are to doe when there is
feare of scandall to some, and
hope of good to others by use of
our liberty.
Parag. 23. Quest. 16. How
farre we are to regard the
scandall that ariseth from
meer fancy without any pro∣bable
reason.
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...Parag. 24. Application 1. To
manifest the uncharitablenesse
of scandalizers by abuse of
their liberty.
Parag. 25. 2. To disswade them
from this sinne, with directions
against it.
Parag. 26. 3. To admonish men
that they be not scandalized
by anothers use of his liberty,
and directions to that end.
CAP. 5. Of scandalizing in speciall
by enticing practises.
Parag. 1. A Woe belongs to
scandalizers by
enticing practises.
Parag. 2. How men scandalize
by enticing practises.
Parag. 3. Difference of scanda∣lizers
by enticing practises in
respect of the part they act
therein.
Parag. 4. Difference of scanda∣lizers
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by enticing practises in
respect of the motives which
incite them.
Parag. 5. Difference of scanda∣lizers
by enticing practises in
respect of the matter wherein
they scandalize.
Parag. 6. The reasons of the
woe due to this scandalizing.
Parag. 7. Application 1. To
manifest the great guilt of
scandalizers in this kind.
Parag. 8. 2. To admonish men
to take heed of scandalizing
this way.
Parag. 9. 3. And those that
are apt to be scandalized.
CAP. 6. Of scandalizing in speciall
by persecution.
Parag. 1. A Woe belongs to
scandalizers by
persecution.
Parag. 2. How beleivers are
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persecuted.
Parag. 3. How persecutions
doe scandalize.
Parag. 4. What woe belongs
to scandalizers by persecution.
Parag. 5. Application 1. To
discover the danger of such
scandalizers.
Parag. 6. 2. To deterre them
from it.
Parag. 7. 3. To advise them
that are in danger of being
scandalized by persecutions.
CAP. 7. Of the aggravation of the
woe belonging to
scandalizers.
Parag. 1. THe explication of
the third proposi∣tion
in the text.
parag. 2. Those that believe
in Christ are little ones.
Parag. 3. Some lesse then o∣thers
in spirituall gifts and
graces.
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...Parag. 4. In power and dignity.
Parag. 5. Beleivers commonly
lesse then others in the world.
Parag. 6. Little in their owne
eyes.
Parag. 7. Application 1. To
advertise us of the estate of
beleivers in this world.
Parag. 8. 2. To teach beleivers
contentednesse in a low condi∣tion.
Parag. 9. 3. To quicken their
hope after Heaven.
Parag. 10. 4. To aggravate
the sinne of scandalizing belei∣vers.
Parag. 11. That the woe due
to scandalizers of beleivers is
greater then any temporall
death.
Parag. 12. Who are to be ac∣counted
beleivers in Christ.
Parag. 13. Why so great ven∣geance
is awarded to scandali∣zers
of beleivers in Christ.
Parag. 14. Application 1. To
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manifest Christs tender care
over his people.
Parag. 15. 2. To teach us to
commit our cause to him when
we suffer for him.
Parag. 16. 3. To advertise
scandalizers of the greatnesse
of their sinne and punishment.
Parag. 17. 4. To deterre them
from their sinne.
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