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7 Conticendo vel connivendo: by silence or connivance. When our tongues ought to reprove, and our hands to correct, the forbearance of those duties draws us into guiltiness of other sins, Eph. 5.11. Have no fellowship with the unfruitful works of darkness; but reprove them rather. Cum peecata non reprehendimus aliena, facimus nostra. While we rebuke not their sins who belong to us, we make them our own. Eli concerning the sins of his sons, did not connive, nor altogether hold his peace: but because he touched them so lightly, and reproved them so slightly; this brought a temporal destruction upon himself and his family. If this fault befall a Minister, it is grievous, Levit. 5.1. If a man offend in blaspheming, another hearing it, and being witness of it; if he do not utter it, he shall bear his iniquity. Si non indicaverit, portabit: nothing more plain: that sin he hath concealed, it as much as if by himself committed. Ezek. 3.18. When God says to the wicked, Thou shalt surely die, and the watch man gives him not warning; His blood will I require at thy hand. Pardon us then in our reprehensions: if we reprove not, your transgressions become our afflictions: and we have reason to love our own souls better than your sins. Not to reprove, were the way to harden your hearts, to make you think well of evil, and to justify that, God condemneth. Duobus modis te non maculabit malus; si non consentis, & si redarguis. Two ways thou mayest escape the guiltiness of another's evil; if thou consent not to him, and if thou reprove him. Levit. 19.17. Thou shalt not hate thy brother in thine heart, but shalt rebuke him, and not suffer sin upon him. Not to rebuke him, is to hate him in thy heart: the original carries it thus, That thou bear not sin for him.

7 Conticendo vel connivendo: by silence or connivence. When our tongues ought to reprove, and our hands to correct, the forbearance of those duties drawes us into guiltinesse of other sinnes, Eph. 5.11. Have no fellowship with the unfruitfull workes of darkenesse; but reprove them rather. Cum peecata non reprehendimus aliena, facimus nostra. While we rebuke not their sinnes who belong to us, we make them our owne. Eli concerning the sinnes of his sonnes, did not connive, nor altogether hold his peace: but because he touched them so lightly, and reproved them so slightly; this brought a temporall destruction upon himselfe and his familie. If this fault befall a Minister, it is grievous,