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Matthew Poole and continuators on Colossians 2:16

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Colossians2:16

16 Let no man therefore judge you in meat or in drink , or in respect of an holy day, or of the new moon, or of the sabbath-days .

He infers none should be condemned; none condemns another for exercising Christian liberty: none hath power to judge and censure herein, q. d. Suffer not any one (he excepts none) to impose upon you that, as necessary in the use and practice of it, which is not after Christ, v. 8. not warranted by his law of liberty, Rom. 14.3, 4. Gal. 5.1. Iam. 1.25. Paul himself would not be imposed on, 1 Cor. 6.12. & 7.23. Gal. 2.5, 11.14. &c. he would not (as one of the words doth note) be domineer'd over by any, or suffer any to exercise authority over him, who held the head and owned Christ to be Lord of the conscience, and sole Dictatour of what way he will be served in.

He therefore would not have the practice of ceremonials obtruded, instancing in some, as the difference of meats and drinks in the use or not use of which (how after Christ had nailed those decrees to his Cross) superstitious ones would from the antiquated rites of the Iews and Pythagorean Philosophers place holiness in, and add them to the Christian institution.

Or the difference of festivals and sabbaths whether annual, or monthly, or weekly from the Levitical institutions.

Marginal references: Rom. 14.3, 10, 13.; Or, for eating and drinking.; Or, in part.

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