0.14.4196 LORD's - DAY Evening ENTERTAINMENT, Containing Fifty-two Practical Difcourfes On the most Serious and Important SUBJECTS in DIVINITY, Intended for the USE of FAMILIES. In FOUR VOLUMES. By JOHN MASON, A. M. VOL. II. The SECOND EDITION. LONDON: Printed for J, BUCKLAND, at the Buck in Pater-nofter CONTENTS. HE Duty of an inoffenfive Con- I Cor. x. 32. Give none Offence, neither to The future Happiness of the Righteous. Righteous; and Gladness for the Upright in John vii. 24. Judge not according to the The Principle and Practice of Religion, the Whole of Man; a Sermon to young People. Ecclef. xii. 13. Let us bear the Conclufion of the whole matter; fear GoD, and keep Deuteron. viii. 2. And thou shalt remember all the way which the Lord thy God led thee thefe forty Years in the Wilderness, to humble thee, and to prove thee, to know what was in ભા SERMON I The Duty of an inoffenfive CONDUCT. I COR. X. 32. Give none Offence, neither to the Jews, nor to the Gentiles, nor to the Church of God. T HE Apostle, in the latter part of this chapter, is giving his Opinion upon a point of Controverfy which was warmly debated in his day; viz. "whether or no it was lawful for Chrif"tians, on any Occafion, to eat of that "Meat which had been offered in facrifice "to Idols. This fome denied; fuppofing that it gave countenance to the pagan Idolatry, was inA 3 confiftent |