Preachers need to take heed therefore, how they deal with young believers. Let them be careful not to pitch matters too high, and make things required evidences of grace which don’t agree with the experience of many good Christians. Let them not lay salvation and damnation upon things that aren’t fit to bear that weight. This is how men are needlessly cast down, and they aren’t soon raised up again by themselves or others.
The ambassadors of so gentle a Savior should not be overbearing, setting up themselves in the hearts of people where Christ alone should sit in his temple. Too much respect to man was one of the inlets of popery. “Let a man so account of us, as of the ministers of Christ” (1 Cor. 4:1), neither more nor less, just so much. How careful was Paul in cases of conscience not to lay a snare upon any weak conscience?
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