Are you still tender
Are they so still? Is your conscience as tender now in these things, as it was then? Do you still follow the same rule both in furniture and apparel, trampling all finery, all superfluity, everything useless, everything merely ornamental; however fashionable, under foot? Rather, have you not resumed what you had once laid aside, and what you could not then use without wounding your conscience? And have you not learned to say, “O, I am not so scrupulous now.” I would to God you were! Then you would not sin thus, because you are not under the law, but under grace.
1771 text
*Are they so still? Is your conscience as tender now in these things, as it was then? Do you still follow the same rule both in furniture and apparel, trampling all finery, all superfluity, every thing useless, every thing merely ornamental; however fashionable, under foot? Rather, have you not resumed what you had once laid aside, and what you could not then use without wounding your conscience? And have you not learned to say, “O, I am not so scrupulous now.” I would to God you were! Then you would not sin thus, because you are not under the law, but under grace.
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Sermon 35 in the 1771 Works. Romans 3:31.
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